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PJM By Roger Kimball September 15, 2012 Instapundit heads the piece "Why Barack Obama Should Resign". That’s a good title. The column might also be titled, “Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid.†I remember a line from the philosopher David Hume that Hayek used as an epigraph to The Road to Serfdom. “It is seldom,†said Hume, “that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.†There’s the innocent seeming accommodation here, the turning a blind eye to official violations of the law there, and, bang, before you can say Saul Alinsky, people are being rounded up at midnight by brownshirted men for making a movie that embarrasses El Presidente. In case you think that is a baseless exaggeration by a knuckle-dragging, right-wing hater, take a look at the photo: By way of explication, Glenn Reynolds quotes the L.A. Times: “Just after midnight Saturday morning, authorities descended on the Cerritos home of the man believed to be the filmmaker behind the anti-Muslim movie that has sparked protests and rioting in the Muslim world.†Got that? The chap made a movie. (He may also have violated probation, but that herring is red, Comrade.) As Glenn observes, “By sending — literally — brownshirted enforcers to engage in — literally — a midnight knock at the door of a man for the non-crime of embarrassing the President of the United States and his administration, President Obama violated that oath. . . . It is a betrayal of his duties as President, and a disgrace.†Yep. And he should resign. And, as Glenn further observes, he surely won’t. But the people of the United States, Democrat as well as Republican, should turn him out of office ignominiously in November. Link

IBD Mark Steyn September 15, 2012 So, on a highly symbolic date, mobs storm American diplomatic facilities and drag the corpse of a U.S. ambassador through the streets. Then the president flies to Vegas for a fundraiser. No, no, a novelist would say; that's too pat, too neat in its symbolic contrast. Make it Cleveland, or Des Moines. The president is surrounded by delirious fanbois and fangurls screaming "We love you," too drunk on his celebrity to understand this is the first photo-op in the aftermath of a national humiliation. No, no, a filmmaker would say; too crass, too blunt. Make them sober, middle-aged Midwesterners, shocked at first, but then quiet and respectful. The president is too lazy and cocksure to have learned any prepared remarks or mastered the appropriate tone, notwithstanding that a government that spends more money than any government in the history of the planet has ever spent can surely provide him with both a speechwriting team and a quiet corner on his private wide-bodied jet to consider what might be fitting for the occasion. So instead he sloughs off the words, bloodless and unfelt: "And obviously our hearts are broken ..." Yeah, it's totally obvious. And he's even more drunk on his celebrity than the fanbois, so in his slapdashery he winds up comparing the sacrifice of a diplomat lynched by a pack of savages with the enthusiasm of his own campaign bobbysoxers. No, no, says the Broadway director; that's too crude, too ham-fisted. How about the crowd is cheering and distracted, but he's the president, he understands the gravity of the hour, and he's the greatest orator of his generation, so he's thought about what he's going to say, and it takes a few moments but his words are so moving that they still the cheers of the fanbois, and at the end there's complete silence and a few muffled sobs, and even in party-town they understand the sacrifice and loss of their compatriots on the other side of the world. But no, that would be an utterly fantastical America. In the real America, the president is too busy to attend the security briefing on the morning after a national debacle, but he does have time to do Letterman and appear on a hip-hop radio show hosted by "The Pimp With A Limp." In the real State Department, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo is guarded by Marines with no ammunition. But they do enjoy the soft-power muscle of a Foreign Service officer, one Lloyd Schwartz, tweeting frenziedly into cyberspace (including a whole chain directed at my own Twitter handle, for some reason) about how America deplores insensitive people who are so insensitively insensitive that they don't respectfully respect all religions equally, respectfully and sensitively, even as the raging mob is pouring through the gates. When it comes to a flailing, blundering superpower, I am generally wary of ascribing to malevolence what is more often sheer stupidity and incompetence. For example, we're told that, because the consulate in Benghazi was designated as an "interim facility," it did not warrant the level of security and protection that, say, an embassy in Scandinavia would have. This seems all too plausible — that security decisions are made not by individual human judgment but according to whichever rule-book sub-clause at the Federal Agency of Bureaucratic Facilities Regulation it happens to fall under. However, the very next day the embassy in Yemen, which is a permanent facility, was also overrun, as was the embassy in Tunisia the day after. Look, these are tough crowds, as the president might say at Caesar's Palace. But we spend more money on these joints than anybody else, and they're as easy to overrun as the Belgian Consulate. As I say, I'm inclined to be generous, and put some of this down to the natural torpor and ineptitude of government. But Hillary Clinton and Gen. Martin Dempsey are guilty of something worse, in the secretary of state's weirdly obsessive remarks about an obscure film supposedly disrespectful of Mohammed and the chairman of the joint chiefs' telephone call to a private citizen asking him if he could please ease up on the old Islamophobia. Forget the free-speech arguments. In this case, as Secretary Clinton and Dempsey well know, the film has even less to do with anything than did the Danish cartoons or the schoolteacher's teddy bear or any of the other innumerable grievances of Islam. The 400-strong assault force in Benghazi showed up with RPGs and mortars: that's not a spontaneous movie protest; that's an act of war, and better planned and executed than the dying superpower's response to it. Clinton and Dempsey are, to put it mildly, misleading the American people when they suggest otherwise. One can understand why they might do this, given the fiasco in Libya. The men who organized this attack knew the ambassador would be at the consulate in Benghazi rather than at the embassy in Tripoli. How did that happen? They knew when he had been moved from the consulate to a "safe house," and switched their attentions accordingly. How did that happen? The U.S. government lost track of its ambassador for 10 hours. How did that happen? Perhaps, when they've investigated Mitt Romney's press release for another three or four weeks, the court eunuchs of the American media might like to look into some of these fascinating questions, instead of leaving the only interesting reporting on an American story to the foreign press. For whatever reason, Clinton chose to double down on misleading the American people. "Libyans carried Chris' body to the hospital," said Secretary Clinton. That's one way of putting it. The photographs at the Arab TV network al-Mayadeen show Chris Stevens' body being dragged through the streets, while the locals take souvenir photographs on their cell phones. A man in a red striped shirt photographs the dead-eyed ambassador from above; another immediately behind his head moves the splayed arm and holds his cell phone camera an inch from the ambassador's nose. Some years ago, I had occasion to assist in moving the body of a dead man: We did not stop to take photographs en route. Even allowing for cultural differences, this looks less like "carrying Chris' body to the hospital" and more like barbarians gleefully feasting on the spoils of savagery. In a rare appearance on a non-showbiz outlet, President Obama, winging it on Telemundo, told his host that Egypt was neither an ally nor an enemy. I can understand why it can be difficult to figure out, but here's an easy way to tell: Bernard Lewis, the great scholar of Islam, said some years ago that America risked being seen as harmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend. At the Benghazi consulate, the looters stole "sensitive" papers revealing the names of Libyans who've cooperated with the U.S. Oh, well. As the president would say, obviously our hearts are with you. Meanwhile, in Pakistan, the local doctor who fingered bin Laden to the Americans sits in jail. In other words, while America's clod vice president staggers around pimping limply that only Obama had the guts to take the toughest decision anyone's ever had to take, the poor schlub who actually did have the guts, who actually took the tough decision in a part of the world where taking tough decisions can get you killed, languishes in a cell because Washington would not lift a finger to help him. Like I said, no novelist would contrast Chris Stevens on the streets of Benghazi and Barack Obama on stage in Vegas. Too crude, too telling, too devastating. Link

I like AlfonZo's take on this ...

All of this over a stupid youtube video ... yeah right. Map created by and "borrowed" from bigdeal on SIGforum As an effigy of obama and US flags were being burned all accross the Middle East, Jay Carney said that the riots are “in response not to United States policy, and not to, obviously, the administration, or the American people, but it is in response to a videoâ€. While flanked by 4 flag-draped coffins, Hillary blamed the video for the murdered Americans. This administration has got to be the most incompetent in history and thier incompetence was a major factor in the deaths of these men. Shame on them. R.I.P. Ambassador Chris Stevens, Glen Doherty, Sean Smith and Tyrone Woods.

And all of this was in the last week! Skippy's been busy.

I realize that there are some who are not 100% convinced of Romney's sincerity on the 2nd Ammendment, but the choice is clear. Anyone who doubts that obama would assault the 2nd Ammendment in a second term hasn't been paying attention ... Obama and the Attempt to Destroy the Second Amendment

The poll is on the left side, scroll down a little bit. http://www.dominionpost.com/ When I voted, we were winning 527 (no) to 157 (yes) - 77%.

Self-Defense: Federal HST 124gr JHP +P or Federal HST 147gr JHP +P Practice: RWS 124gr FMJ, Speer Lawman 124gr FMJ, S&B 115gr FMJ, Fiocchi 115gr FMJ, Magtech 115gr FMJ

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Thanks. I really like the clean lines and the light weight (1.6 oz) of the CDM Gear light mount. I got mine here. It's also available on Amazon. Other than the light and the mount, the 1300D is 100% stock.

The tube on the 1300D is actually 18.5" ... it extends deeper into the receiver than the barrel. And, a 2 3/4 shell is considerably shorter than 2 3/4". 2 3/4 is the length of the uncrimped shell. The Federal LE132 00 I keep loaded in the 1300 measures ~ 2 3/8" (crimped). 7 x 2.375 = 16.625", which leaves almost 2" for the spring and follower. I suspect the the 870 uses a longer follower and/or a stronger less compressible spring.

Definitely check out the Winchester 1300 Defender. I got a LNIB 1300 on GB a while back for $250 delivered (+FFL/NCIS fees). 18", 7+1, rotary bolt and fast!

I really like the clean lines! Quite unique. Have you had a chance to shoot it yet?

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BCM 16" Middy (work in progress) Family Photo: Winchester 1300 Defender, BCM 16" Middy, SIG P226, P225, P239

BCM 16" Middy Family Photo: Winchester 1300 Defender, BCM 16" Middy, SIG P226, P225, P239

You're going to love the BCM. I just finished a BCM 16" Middy. Well almost ... still have to install the BattleComp compensator that came in yesterday Update 07/05/2012: Installed the BattleComp and my G2X with an IWC SMC 1" Light Mount.

It was 25 days for me as well ... SAT 2/4 - HCP/Safety Class at Shooters Edge in Piney Flats. Mike Lewis instructor. MON 2/6 - Applied for HCP at the DMV in Blountville. TUE 2/7 - Fingerprinted at the UPS Store in Kingsport. SAT 3/3 - Received HCP. Totally uneventful process; the only negative was the 1 1/2 hour wait at the DMV.

Hello from Kingsport and welcome to TGO.

Hello from Kingsport and welcome to TGO.

My recent 9mm purchases ... 1000 rds RWS 124gr FMJ $189.99 + $9.99 s&h @ Weapons World 1000 rds 115gr FMJ (reman) $169.00 + $9.88 s&h @ USA Ammo

Best: SIG P226 (flawless & accurate) Most Fun: Winchester 1300 Defender

I got the MOD-C Clamp here: CDM MOD-C - Shotgun Flashlight Mount: MSP Scope Mounts Also available here: CDM Gear MOD C Shotgun Light Mount

Won a near mint Winchester 1300 Defender on GB a few weeks ago. I have no plans to make it "tacticool" beyond adding a flashlight, which I have already done. I mounted a Surefire G2X Tactical LED Flashlight using a CDM Gear MOD-C Clamp. I really like how clean this all looks. The 2nd part of this post is a range report. Took the 1300 to Shooter's Edge yesterday and killed some cardboard with Federal Tactical LE132 00 Buck. I made some crude targets from a cardboard box and shot at 5, 10 and 15 yards. At 5 yards, all 9 pellets punched a 1" hole. At 10 yards, all 9 pellets were within 2.5". At 15 yards, 7 pellets were within 2", 8 pellets were within 3.25", and all 9 pellets were within 5.5". I am very impressed with the LE132 ... very tight patterns out of an 18.5" barrel, and very easy on the shoulder.

SIG P226R (2 months ago) ... and lovin' it.