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June 14, 2016 By Fausta

Orlando: Party at the end of the world

Mark Steyn spoke eloquently about the Party at the End of the World,

And, “the Western World at a party at the end of the world”,

The WaPo reports,
Orlando’s Latino community hit hard by massacre at nightclub. Steyn had noticed yesterday.

The Pink Pistols‘ press release:

Gwendolyn Patton, First Speaker of the Pink Pistols, an international GLBT self-defense organization, warns people not to jump immediately to the assailant’s guns as the object of blame, but to concentrate instead on Mateen’s violent acts. “The Pink Pistols gives condolences to all family and friends of those killed and injured at Pulse,” began Patton. “This is exactly the kind of heinous act that justifies our existence. At such a time of tragedy, let us not reach for the low-hanging fruit of blaming the killer’s guns. Let us stay focused on the fact that someone hated gay people so much they were ready to kill or injure so many. A human being did this. The human being’s tools are unimportant when compared to the bleakness of that person’s soul. I say again, GUNS did not do this. A human being did this, a dead human being. Our job now is not to demonize the man’s tools, but to condemn his acts and work to prevent such acts in the future.”

Who are the Pink Pistols?

The Pink Pistols is an international organization dedicated to the legal, safe, and responsible use of firearms for self-defense of the sexual-minority community. Chapters may be found across the United States and Canada. Though the Pink Pistols is for the GLBTQ community, it is not solely composed of the GLBTQ community, and all are welcome to join.

Here’s a list of their local chapters.

UPDATE
The rifle was a Sig Sauer MCX carbine.

June 15, 2015 By Fausta

Happy Magna Carta Day!

“Real rights are like Magna Carta: restraints on state power.”

@MarksteynOnline writes about The Field Where Liberty Was Sown

Security of the person, property rights, religious freedom, due process… The core animating principles of modern free societies began in that muddy field in Runnymede eight centuries ago. That’s why it’s the most important anniversary of the year: when the pampered, solipsistic beneficiaries of an 800-year inheritance start to lose the habits of liberty, only darkness lies ahead. Better to re-learn the old lessons while we still can.

The Magna Carta Libertatum: The Great Charter of Liberties was signed on June 15, 1215, 800 years ago.

May 10, 2013 By Fausta

Mark Steyn?

Or Henry VIII?

Of course, Steyn is better looking and trimmer. Henry was taller. (Steyn’s approx. 6’1″. Henry was 6’3“)

Speaking of Mark Steyn, here’s his take on Benghazi.

February 28, 2010 By Fausta

Mark Steyn on responsibility

Mark Steyn on When Responsibility Doesn’t Pay

Think of Greece as California: Every year an irresponsible and corrupt bureaucracy awards itself higher pay and better benefits paid for by an ever-shrinking wealth-generating class. And think of Germany as one of the less profligate, still-just-about-functioning corners of America such as my own state of New Hampshire: Responsibility doesn’t pay. You’ll wind up bailing out anyway. The problem is there are never enough of “the rich” to fund the entitlement state, because in the end it disincentivizes everything from wealth creation to self-reliance to the basic survival instinct, as represented by the fertility rate. In Greece, they’ve run out Greeks, so they’ll stick it to the Germans, like French farmers do. In Germany, the Germans have only been able to afford to subsidize French farming because they stick their defense tab to the Americans. And in America, Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are saying we need to paddle faster to catch up with the Greeks and Germans. What could go wrong?