Neanderpundit

Would MLK be disgusted with what he saw, were he alive?

Mr B asks that question, and it’s a pretty damned good one.

Me, I tend to think yes. My better angels like to think that he wouldn’t have ended up another Jesse/Sharpton/Oprah/whomever race hustler, but a man who really did have a dream, and it would be wonderful if his dream could have come true.

I’m more inclined to think that the race hustlers allowed him to be or at least were pleased for him to be the sacrificial lamb. it allowed them the power of public opinion to back their plan for theft, graft, corruption and greed, while doing nothing whatsoever to actually help the people they purport to assist. It also allowed the message of “Equal for all” to die, and be replaced with a culture of victimhood that today is so powerful that it removes all reason from all public discussion of race. Without that culture of victimhood, people would be equal- really equal- and the race hustlers would be unemployed and poor. So you know that can and will never change.

I wish we could see your dream come true, Dr. King. Instead we have a country that will all eventually become Detroit.

links me to several youtube videos of Mandy Patinkin singing, and copies in whole an article by Alex Witchel in the NYT. (Jenny knows I won’t allow the NYT to appear on this screen lest I Elvis the whole computer)(Not just me, I know a lot of people who have completely abandoned print media- I consider everything but the editorial page of the WSJ to be leftist filth). Anyway, she’s right about Mandy. He’s big- I mean, really big. it’s not that he’s large, he’s what, 6’1″ which I consider normal. No, he just seems to fill the room he’s in or the stage he’s on, not just with his presence but with his voice.

here’s a classic example:

it is almost like he has a non human voice, really. I listen to him and it’s like the difference between an oboe and a theremin. As if he were not from this planet- his voice is resonant and I imagine if he wants he can fill a room with it, but he can also rein it in and make it as soft as Johnny Mathis.

If you can listen to this and not feel how big it is, you’re probably dead inside. Go watch some videos by wossname thicke and follow the bouncing titties.

partner and I drove down to Indy yesterday, late morning. Arrived at the show almost in perfect time to meet his brother Rich hauling his first set of purchases out to the truck, and spent a bit of time in the parking lot with him prior to going back into the show.

The table just inside the door is always my favorite and I always hang there for just a bit because of the selection of doubles and drillings they have there; there was a Purdey 16 gauge that made me drool and it only cost about the same as a nice new car.

I was hoping to run into the Parts Guy- he’s always there for the “big” 1500, not so much for the “Little” 1500’s that happen in the heat of summer. I’m looking for one of the sight hoods for the old Lyman ramp on the Arisaka. Anyway, the Parts guy wasn’t there, but I did what I always do at a gun show, walk around looking at the guns etc. as if they were museum exhibits that I get to touch and feel and maybe even buy.

I want a bayonet for my AR, but the “New’ style are extremely expensive at present and I don’t want one that bad just yet.

I was also looking for spring assist knives but I didn’t see any “Plain” ones, they are all ‘Tactical” which I don’t really like.

Partner is in the process of buying a house ten minutes from me where he can shoot in his backyard!!! We went to the blogmeet and I annoyed the good bloggers of Indiana with my presence, and possibly, my aroma (it was a hot day) and partner and his brother Rich (Who are high-level professional misanthropes)(In addition to being brilliant electrical engineers(Partner) and inspired machinists (Rich))(Kids, don’t try this at home, you’ll just get hurt) got to spend some quality time together discussing the new digs and then we said goodbye and headed for home.

Tamara stopped by and checked out my new boomstick- and no, this did not involve either of us removing any article of clothing- that’s my boomslang you’re thinking of, and it stayed safely nested, thankyouverymuch. I hope we can get her to come up and go to the Nappannee show with us sometime. It would be cool to get her to come to my club and show some of the IDPA duffers there what a professional can do.

And at no point did I run her or her bicycle over with the exploder. I like my tires too much.

I do still think she needs one of these

though this one is probably more tactikewl.