re: #525 OldLineTexan

Good for you, and OK by me to be cynical.

However, if the “guns” thing eludes you, I can only assume you were asleep or out of the country from approximately 1991 to 2004.

a bitter clinger

Thanks, my friend.

As for the guns thing: I started my collection during those years. What was the upshot? I bought everything my little heart desired, all legally. The hi-cap mag restrictions weren’t retroactive, and there were plenty still on the market. And then those laws got repealed. Same for “scary” and “ugly” guns. I know the media can’t tell its ass from its mouth when it comes to firearms, I hear them all the time saying “it was a semi-automatic weapon” as if that were particularly frightening. But it doesn’t work. I live within an hour’s drive from DC and everything I own is straight-up legal and secured at my expense in a full-size Wells Fargo safe against would-be “borrowers”. Sure, you can’t by ammo right now for love or money, but that’s because the whackaloons are in full-on panic mode, as though we haven’t been there before.

Thing about pendulums is, they swing back and forth but the path they describe, absent outside impetus, actually gets smaller with time and eventually reaches stasis.

So fear not. You may hate Obama and I may despise Palin, but neither one of them is going to define America. America is what it is, a big-ass ball of contradictions and possibilities, and that’s kinda how I like it.