My Contribution to Stereotyping

On a beautiful deserted islands in the middle of nowhere, the following people are suddenly stranded by, as you might expect, a shipwreck and each group is confined to their own part of the island by steep mountains:

2 Italian men and 1 Italian woman
2 French men and 1 French woman
2 German men and 1 German woman
2 Greek men and 1 Greek woman
2 Bulgarian men and 1 Bulgarian woman
2 Japanese men and 1 Japanese woman
2 Arab men and one Arab woman
2 Chinese men and 1 Chinese woman
2 Indian men and one Indian woman
2 English men and 1 English woman
2 Irish men and 1 Irish woman
2 American men and 1 American woman

One month later they are rescued, but the rescue crew finds that the following things have occurred …

One Italian man killed the other Italian man for the Italian woman. The two of them were then living happily for a few weeks, but when she was busy cooking he had been climbing the highest the mountain peak to look for a mistress.

The two French men and the French woman were all unemployed, but living happily together in a menage-a-trois.

The two German men had a strict weekly schedule of alternating visits with the German woman. In the off weeks, each man was working on building a luxury boat.

The two Greek men were sleeping with each other and the Greek woman was cleaning and cooking for them.

The two Bulgarian men took one long look at the endless shark infested ocean, another long look at the Bulgarian woman, and started swimming.

The two Japanese men had sent texts to Tokyo and were awaiting instructions. The Japanese woman was waiting demurely for something to happen.

The Arabs are all dead. One Arab man caught the other Arab man looking at the Arab woman, stoned her for being flirtatious, then blew himself up to kill the other man.

The two Chinese men had set up a pharmacy, a liquor store, a restaurant and a laundry, and got the Chinese woman pregnant in order to supply employees for their stores.

The two Indian men and the Indian woman formed a web based Customer Service Corporation, stated to make money, but lost it when the US economy tanked. So one of the men made a coconut raft, emigrated to the US on an SB1 visa and was sending checks home to the woman, who had not told him yet that she married the other man.

The two English men were patiently waiting in quiet desperation for someone to properly introduce them to the English woman.

The two Irish men had divided their portion of the island into North and South and setup competing distilleries. They don’t remember if sex was in the picture because it got sort of foggy after the first few liters of coconut whiskey. The Irish woman spent all of her time yelling at the Irish men for being drunk. But they were all 3 satisfied because at least the English were miserable.

The two American men had just committed suicide because the American woman was holding out on them for being chauvinist pigs and endlessly complained about the true nature of feminism; how she can do everything they can do; the necessity of fulfillment; the equal division of household chores; how sand and palm trees make her butt look fat; how her last boyfriend respected her opinion and treated her nicer than they do; how her relationship with her mother had finally started improving before the shipwreck and how at least the taxes are low and it isn’t raining. But the final straw that made them off themselves was when they caught her waiving to the Italian man.

(From one of those emails)

BAG Buy

In the dark misty eons of prehistory there existed a particularly fine blog run by one Kim du Toit an example of America being enriched by immigration, in Kim’s case, from South Africa.

Kim was a gunner of note, and his blog was a place of ideas and information, a joy to visit.

Out of Kim’s blog came the idea that freedom-loving Americans might wish to “celebrate” April 15, Income Tax Day, with a holiday more appropriate to the ideas of freedom and personal responsibility, and from there we get Buy A Gun (BAG) Day.  The premise was to go out and buy a gun.

This year I celebrated a bit early.  Here’s what I ended up with:

 

Just a plain ol’ black rifle, right?  Bushmaster.  Match two-stage trigger.  Free-floating handguard.  1/2-MOA rear sight.  Square post front sight.  Match barrel. i.e., match rifle meeting service rifle rules for NRA and CMP competitions. It needs a good sling.  I have some.

The carefully positioned yellow cat hides the absence of a flash hider and you can see the lack of bayonet lug.  This means it’s a gun sold under Bill ‘n’ Hillary’s Assault Weapons Ban.  That makes it, of course, much safer since instead of randomly bayonetting passers-by, one is left with only the capacity to punch small and irritating holes in them at ranges of hundreds of yards, a much kinder alternative.

Today in History – April 8

1730Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.

1895 – The Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional in Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co. Since then, the ba*tards have changed their minds…

1899
– Martha Place becomes the first woman to be executed in an electric chair. I am Woman, hear me…BZZZZZZZZZZT!!!!”

1904 – The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente Cordiale, saving Britain the expense of having to administer another historical ass-whipping before sitting in Paris being served by the French.

1913
– The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law. Another tilt on the downhill slide into the abyss.

1953 – Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya’s British rulers. And Britain turned the country over to these terrorist thugs.

1985
Bhopal disaster: India files suit against Union Carbide for the disaster which killed an estimated 2,000 and injured another 200,000. Rumors that Union Carbide was making dot remover are unfounded.