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Quip O’ The Day’

In reference to the recent proliferation of armor and the advice to shoot for the pelvic area as a failure drill.

Make a new training drill: The Mozamdique.

Personally, Dad & I have decided that the new ‘center mass’ target is now midway between the navel and the crotch. In other words, if it happens, we’re going ‘downtown’ right off the bat. Which is what Clint Smith has advised for awhile.

Question O’ The Day

How many U.S. Presidents in modern history have announced ‘food shortages’ before they occurred?

The answer is: Only President Biden.

Quip O’ The Day

At one point I would have dismissed this sort of thing as conspiracy theory. But the conspiracy theorists’ track record isn’t bad, these days . . .

‘One (1) heartbeat away………….’ May God have mercy on us

Quip O’ The Day
“She has convinced herself that everything she says is deeply profound”

Kamala Harris tosses word salad after meeting Jamaican prime minister.

Quip O’ The Day
“Hope we spend more time on propulsion than on pronouns.”

Moon battle: New Space Force plans raise fears over militarizing the lunar surface.

The battle is on for the moon.
The U.S. military is investing in new technologies to build large structures on the lunar surface. It’s designing a spy satellite to orbit the moon. And it just announced plans for a surveillance network — what it calls a “highway patrol” — for the vast domain between Earth’s orbit and the moon, known as cislunar space. Top military strategists and documents, meanwhile, now consistently refer to this region as a new realm of operations.
The funding is also starting to flow. The government spending bill passed by Congress this week added $61 million for the military to pursue projects in cislunar space.
“That’s basically the first significant chunk of money that we’re putting towards this,” said Space Force Col. Eric Felt, commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico.
He likened it to “putting the toe into the water, but we think this is an important potential future tech area.”
“From the Space Force’s perspective,” he added, “they don’t know how big of a deal this is going to be in the future, but it could be a big deal.”
The Pentagon maintains these new pursuits, all launched since the creation of the Space Force three years ago, are primarily designed to help secure a growing private space economy and safeguard civilian astronauts. In all, the newest branch believes nation-states and commercial companies will fly nearly 100 missions — both crewed and uncrewed — to the moon between now and 2030.
But space policy and security experts also fear that the armed forces could outstrip NASA in space exploration and thrust what has largely been a peaceful competition into a military contest.
Aaron Boley, co-director of Outer Space Institute at the University of British Columbia, says the Pentagon already plays an outsized role in Earth orbit, where satellites are used to support military operations and global security.
“But once we move to the moon, this should really be driven by civilian organizations to ensure that peaceful purposes are maintained,” he said.
Some leading military strategists, however, say there is simply too much at stake in the space race to leave it to civilians, and that the Pentagon will likely be compelled to take on a bigger role.
China’s space agency has made significant strides in its plan to develop the moon, including landing the first spacecraft on the south pole in 2019. It also plans at least three additional robotic missions, beginning in 2024, to build a lunar base, with missions involving taikonauts to follow.
Proponents for a more muscular U.S. military say they fear China cannot be trusted to pursue only peaceful aims and could use its space program for both economic and military advantage, including a new partnership with Russia to build a moon base.
“Power abhors a vacuum,” said Peter Garretson, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and space strategist who is now a senior fellow in defense studies at the American Foreign Policy Council. “You should expect that other actors will act in ways that favor their interests to the exclusion of others.”
“I think we all hope that NASA will rise to the occasion again and be able to perform that traditional exploration role,” he added. “But with the slipping of budgets and slipping the timelines, I think there is some concern as to whether or not NASA is scaling its efforts and will be able to rise to the occasion.”
The Space Force maintains it is interested only in developing the means for “domain awareness,” not exploration.

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“We let the WHO be taken over by the Chinese, but still treated it as neutral on Covid. We let UN human rights bodies be dominated by human rights violators.
We deserted our friends in Afghanistan. No wonder Putin thought he could try it on.” – Lord David Frost, former British Minister of State.

Quip O’ The Day

I can’t believe we still don’t have world peace after changing the names on pancake boxes, syrup bottles and football teams…………..

Observation O’ The Day

“Anything that threatens to remove power from a leftist is terrorism in their minds. Because they’re a crazed cult who believe it’s foreordained that they win. In their indoctrinated minds, there can be no dissent from this. Why, Marx foretold it.” –Sarah Hoyt

Canadian Public Safety Minister Claims, Without Proof, That Protestors Were Really Violent Terrorists Attempting to Overthrow Canadian Government.

Worth watching this entire diatribe from start to finish.  In his public statements today, Trudeau’s Public Safety Minister, Marco Mendicino, definitively says the people charged by federal RCMP officials are tied to far-right extremist groups who are funded by international terrorist organizations with an intent to overthrow the government.

According to the statements, the Canadian government is under attack from thousands of highly organized terrorists within the country.  Their goal is to overthrow the government and install an entirely new form of national assembly.  This is what he is claiming.

Specifically, Mendicino claims the protestors, charged with firearms offenses in Coutts, are the first wave of a well known domestic terrorist group directly connected to the trucker protest group in Ottawa.  However, when challenged to give the name of the terrorist organization he is speaking about, Mendocino completely walks back the claim to an unrecognizable point.

Quip O’ The Day

“Polling must be really bad for Ted Lieu, of all people, to call for the recognition of natural immunity and an end to restrictions.”–Ian Cheong

Lieu’s chart ends in October, even before Omicron hit.
He must be so desperate to end restrictions that he’ll post anything, and he’s just the moron to do it.

Quip O’ The Day
“I’ll believe Brooks’ “end of individualism” schtick when he gives up his NYT byline and replaces his name with “Staff Writer.” —Professor Reynolds

Comment O’ The Day
“We are a nation of individuals with unique dreams and liberties. Stop it.”–Brian Gutherman

DAVID BROOKS IS PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1919!

Flashback to a century ago, when attacks on individuality were all the rage among collectivist-obsessed “Progressives:”

[Woodrow] Wilson was merely one voice in the progressive chorus of the age. “[W]e must demand that the individual shall be willing to lose the sense of personal achievement, and shall be content to realize his activity only in connection to the activity of the many,” declared the progressive social activist Jane Addams.

“New forms of association must be created,” explained Walter Rauschenbusch, a leading progressive theologian of the Social Gospel movement, in 1896. “Our disorganized competitive life must pass into an organic cooperative life.” Elsewhere, Rauschenbusch put it more simply: “Individualism means tyranny.”

Or as Mies van der Rohe, the last director of Weimar Germany’s socialist-oriented Bauhaus design school said in 1924:

The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us. The decisive achievements in all fields are impersonal and their authors are for the most part unknown. They are part of the trend of our time toward anonymity. Our engineering structures are examples. Gigantic dams, great industrial installations and huge bridges are built as a matter of course, with no designer’s name attached to them. They point to the technology of the future.

Curiously, Mies would have no problem building for wealthy individuals who wished to commission his work — not to mention having his name firmly associated with his designs — after he fled the Weimar Republic’s much more punitive successors for America.

Exit question:

Some of its shakier proponents fell in love with fine trouser creases over substance. As did others who knew better, but hated missing out on all the best cocktail parties on both ends of the Northeast Corridor. Not to mention, the green room at MSNBC.

Quip O’ The Day
On the Canadian trucker’s strike/protest………….

Reporter: How long do you plan to protest?
Trucker: Just two weeks to flatten the curve.

Geez. Elite, Elite, Elite XD-Elite, now SiG Elite.
Everything’s “Elite” these days.
The real deal high speed/low drag ‘Elite’ guys I knew? Carried Glocks.

Quip O’ The Day
“My Gun is Cute” by Michelle Spillane

First Look: SIG Sauer Equinox Elite Family of Pistols
SIG Sauer has launched a new line of pistols, the Equinox Elite.

P226 Equinox Elite Full-Size1911 EQUINOX Full-Size

The Equinox line of pistols is an iconic series of pistols from SIG Sauer with distinctive features which make them stand out from the crowd. The SIG Custom Works team is once again paying homage to the Equinox Series with a new line of Elite Series pistols. The new, limited edition Equinox Series from SIG Custom Works is a modern take on these SIG Sauer classics. Each pistol features the unique Equinox slide design and contrasting nickel-plated controls paired with a black Hogue SL G-10 grip, XRAY Day/Night sights, and an SRT trigger, with the Elite Series extended beavertail, the new Equinox Elite series blends classic styling with modern performance, giving you the best of best of both worlds.

This limited-edition run from Sig Custom Works includes the following models:

  • The Sig Sauer P229 Equinox Elite Compact in 9mm that comes with three 15 round magazines
  • The .45 ACP 1911 Equinox Full Size that has two 8 round magazines
  • The P226 Equinox Full Size 9mm with three 15 round magazines
  • The iconic P220 Equinox Full Size chambered in 45ACP, with three 8 round magazines

A new addition to the Equinox line is the P320 AXG Equinox that is chambered in 9 mm. The pistol ships with three 17-round magazines and includes all the innovative features of the P320 series such as removable Fire Control Unit (FCU) and almost limitless upgrade possibilities. The P320 AXG Equinox also comes with an AXG Grip Module, which combines the look and feel of a classic metal-bodied Sig Sauer pistols with flexibility of the P320 series.

Each pistol comes packaged with two magazines in a Custom Works Negrini case complete with a SIG Custom Works challenge coin and a certified custom certificate.