Paul Ryan Talks To His Fellow Americans

2012 97 Comments

“Behind every small business, there’s a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores – these didn’t come out of nowhere. A lot of heart goes into each one. And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them. After all that work, and in a bad economy, it sure doesn’t help to hear from their president that government gets the credit. What they deserve to hear is the truth: Yes, you did build that.”

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The 1911 Colt Auto Just Won’t Die

Military 71 Comments

Resurrection, for some Marines:

9mm or .45 cal: Which pistol should USMC have?
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Impact on the Body
The 9mm round has been statistically shown to have a better penetration of the human body including full penetration. The downside is that not all of the kinetic energy is transmitted to the body and is lost upon exit. The 45 round however, has a very good chance of transmitting 100% of its energy to the body and not penetrating. Hence “knock down power.” This debate has raged hotly for decades on these specific points.
Tactics
The pro M9 crowd says having a fast round improves accuracy and the increased capacity of the smaller round provides more shots per magazine which could be a lifesaver.
The pro 45 crowd says that where you would need only 1 round of a 45 you would need 2 or more from an M9.
When the M9 was tested, it was not tested on insurgents wearing body armour that were hopped up on drugs. I say this to try and level the debate on this issue from different eras. To play devils advocate, if you were only shooting at an enemy wearing a couple layers of shirts, then the 9mm could have worked with a double tap.
Now that I have made my position clear on the 45 cal. for general combat ops, I would hope to generate some buzz from individuals who have had trigger time on this issue in theatre…

It’s Probably Nothing

It's Probably Nothing 23 Comments

Yeah, it seems as paranoid and nuts as it did when it was said about Bush, but this stuff is not being said in an extremist corner of the internet — it’s being said in a middle-class suburban salon in an area where 30% (or more) of the businesses are now shuttered, and houses are being foreclosed upon and then re-occupied seemingly overnight, creating what the stylist called “a neighborhood full of changes and no hope. Forget about new small businesses,” he said, gesturing across the street, where a small food shop’s “opening soon” banner had become sun-faded and worn, even as the door remained locked. “That guy is never going to open.”
“I can’t get a loan,” the woman in the next chair told me. “I want to consolidate my kid’s college loans into one loan, and the credit union says they don’t give loans to consolidate student loans. I told them, I have job-security and excellent credit — what if I just want a loan for myself, a personal loan?” She was in high dudgeon and her voice grew louder in a perfect arc of Long Island umbrage-taking. “They said they’d need to know what it was for. I said, ‘it’s my personal business what the loan is for! Maybe I want to go on vacation, throw a wedding, pay off college loans, why do you have to know?’, and they said, no, they had to know what the money was for, because they’d be paying it out for me — like I’m a child who can’t be trusted with money! So, I figure, okay, it’s a credit union, I’ll try my bank. They said they don’t make personal loans anymore! It shook me up. I felt like maybe I didn’t realize how bad things are.”

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