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Damn you all who failed to follow Lord Obama’s advice to keep your tires properly inflated and thus avert global warming and Hurricane Edouard!

You sexist pigs, don’t you know women and children will be hardest hit? Particularly the ones with darker skins, you racist bastards?

Don’t you wish St. O was already in the Oval Office, pre-emptively sending necessary storm aid directly to your front door?

So, anyway, it’s probably gonna start blowin’ and rainin’ pretty darn hard sometime late tonight, or early tomorrow morning; center should make landfall early Tuesday afternoon. Unless something completely freakish happens, we’ll probably see 5-10″ of rain here.

Per Kim Du Toit, re a headline that came out just before Mr. E started to get himself organized:

Texas plagued by heat, drought, water parasite, wildfires

So… everything’s normal, then.

I guess we don’t have to worry about that now.

I’m trying to pick a rifle cartridge, and immediately thought of Kim DuToit, the Rifleman himself. Took me awhile to find the post I was thinking of, but here it is, with the comparison photo I was looking for:

This post will be updated as I find more stuff I care about. Again, for my own reference only; I’m not trying to make a point here.

(If you care, I’m looking at spending about $500 on a magazine-fed rifle suitable for fighting — although not for home defense, and not that I’m planning or hoping to get in a fight any time soon, or ever. I want the cartridge to be widely available. I don’t insist on semi-auto or huge magazine capacity. I don’t give a rat’s ass one way or the other about “tactical” styling. I think it should have iron sights, but my eyes are getting so creaky, I’m probably going to need a scope to hit anything more than 25 yards away. Right now, I’m leaning towards .30-06 or .308 Win/7.62×51 NATO.)

So, I’m kinda thinking maybe I shouldn’t vote this year.

…They know that my vote is a fundamental nod in favor of their existence. Go watch those creepy assholes on NBC doing their video bumpers and telling me how important it is that I should vote.

They know the whole fucking charade would fall right over if they could not claim to ‘represent’ us.

Right, right, right!

Update via my favorite African American, Kim duToit, quoting Get Liberty:

America appears to have descended into a one-party system.  And the only people today’s hand-holding politicians want to please is each other.

There is today, simply and solely, the “Governing Party.” There are those with power, and then there is everyone else.  Conservatives understand this as we have been sold out time and again on everything from tax cuts to illegal immigration to the size of the Federal budget.  And the Hard Left is quickly finding this out as the presumptive Democrat nominee, Barack Obama, moves his politics to the center to curry the favor of moderates, waffling one key issue after another—like NAFTA, public campaign financing, and the death penalty.

One major reason Americans are losing faith in their government is precisely because of broken promises.

I’m still, still, thinking I’ll vote. B. Hussein Obama represents a huge step away from limited government and individual liberty, while McCain merely twitches spasticly in place. (Then there’s the whole business about a vote for Obama being a vote for a Daley Machine puppet that still has that factory-fresh out-gassing circuit board smell, while a vote for McCain is a vote for an actual, if deeply flawed, human being with decades of experience and a proven willingness to fight and suffer for his country. Not to mention that a vote for McCain is a vote for telling the Main Stream Press Gang to go stick their titties in their inkblood-stained rollers….)

But damn, I’m gonna feel dirty.

What’s that? I should move somewhere else? (Have I mentioned the profound irony of socialist “liberals” telling me I should “love it or leave it”? This probably won’t be the last time.)

There is no place else. This is it. “The last, best, hope,” and all that. There is no “magical palace on the moon”. Plus, it’s mine. Ours. Not theirs.

However, this might be the election where the American people finally give it all away.

Gonna be an interesting fight.

Kim du Toit is considering buying a new camera, and asked for recommendations.

Since the rest of this post is mostly lists of specs, and will be of little interest to most readers, I’m putting it all below the fold. (However, if you are interested in digital cameras at all, scroll to the end to read Ken Rockwell’s comments on resolution and pixel count.)

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