Front Sight, Press

I watched John McCain closely last night in the first presidential debate against Barak Obama. What I saw in McCain was an elder statesman, competent, intelligent, accomplished and even likeable, but he is no Moses who will part the sea and lead the children out of the wilderness to the Promised Land. He is no Reagan, no JFK, not even a William Jefferson Clinton, and it would take a Moses to pull this one out of the fire for the Republicans. Unless John McCain learns to walk on water in short order, we are staring down the barrel of an electoral apocalypse.

This is the nature of Mr. Obama’s particular kind of charisma. People project their best wishes on him, they fill in the blank of a very attractive and plausible outline. His is not, emphatically, a charisma of deeds. For what has he done, save run for president? He is an accommodating vessel - cool, smart, biracial and “unfinished.” This is the Gatsby quality of him that others have noted. Like Gatsby, he is a receptacle of others’ glamorous invention.

The High Road has been hijacked

Oh, gee-wiz, Obama is using the head of a fake, phony, fraudulent “gun rights” organization, the AHSA, to convince us that he’s pro-2A. The AHSA is a stealth firearm prohibition group funded by such anti-gun activists as John Rosenthal, of Massachusetts, who take out billboards urging more gun control.

Extensive research was conducted by the Jawa Report to determine the source of smears directed toward Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Those smears included false allegations that she belonged to a secessionist political party and that she has radical anti-American views.

FactCheck supposedly exists to look beyond a politician’s claims. Ironically, in its analysis of NRA materials on Barack Obama, these so-called “FactCheckers” use the election year campaign rhetoric of a presidential candidate and a verbal claim by one of the most zealous gun control supporters in Congress to refute facts compiled by NRA’s research of vote records and review of legislative language.

Sitting in the dark for a week with no electrical power gave me a lot of time to think about survival. What developed in my mind was a “hierarchy” of conditions required to stay alive, maintain some quality of life, and recover when the crisis has passed.

how do you get the power company to turn your power back on? Get really desperate, go to Home Depot and lay down $800 for a 5000 watt generator, and when you get home, your lights will be on.

In a strong bipartisan effort, House Democrats and Republicans recently joined forces to introduce H.R. 6691, the “Second Amendment Enforcement Act.” This critical NRA-backed legislation would overturn Washington, D.C.’s newly enacted “emergency gun control laws,” which continue to defy the U.S. Supreme Court’s unambiguous decision in District of Columbia v. Heller by continuing to restrict D.C. residents’ right to self-defense.

Time to do it.
…and Louisiana, too…
…and yes, Geraldo can be an idiot sometimes, but he’s fun.
…in the morning:
It looks damned bad, but maybe not as bad as many people feared.
As it turns out, the storm surge was about half of what was predicted:
…Hydrologist Benton McGee from the U.S. Geological Survey says the highest storm […]