...насчет одиночества, во всяком случае.

Вы - "Волк-одиночка".

Вы бы легко выжили в пустыне или в диком дремучем лесу. Одиночество для вас не проблема, поскольку умный человек всегда при вас. Отсутствие благ цивилизации для вас легко компенсируется отсутствием дураков. Но вот чего вы не сможете выносить долго - это толпу. Так что запаситесь берушами и темными очками на всякий случай. Уровень выживаемости: 84%.

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After the sandstorm:

The sun.


The air. This is the view across the mighty Tigris. Upon closer examination, the other bank of the river is visible. It is no more than 200m away.

Heym SR 30. Note the bolt. It's a strait-pull.



Blaser Tactical 2. By exchanging barrels, one can have a .308, a .300 Win Mag, or a .338 LP.


Tactilite T-1. It's an AR15 upper receiver. Single-shot .50 BMG. The downside is that one must exchange a trigger group.

End Clinton-era Military Base Gun Ban

At the time, when I voted for him, I had no idea just how much damage he has done to the country, both socially and economically.

"Голодает Россия, нища и боса,
но зато космонавты летят в небеса."
--Евгений Евтушенко, 1962

Via germanych

Somebody today, thought it was a good idea to give me a new nickname--44 Russian. I suppose I should be offended--after all, it is old, slow, and underpowered...

Mine! AAAALL Mine!!! Muahahaha!!!


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At the range.


...аnd celebrating later in the day.  Как будет "обмывать" по-аглицки?

"Actually, a generation of economic stagnation has taught the Swedes a lesson. They've learned that government does not produce wealth, and if they want more people to work, jobs have to pay better, after taxes. Sweden is therefore in the midst of a series of tax cuts aimed at preserving the long-term viability of its economy."

www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/09/024554.php

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873

Speech translation:
www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/09/10/obamas-health-care-speech-in-plain-english/

Goose and Gander:
Dems Shout And Boo At Bush During 2005 SOTU
Harry Reid Called Bush a Liar
Bush Booed and Jeered during Inaugural pre-Introduction

UPD:
Wilson’s Fundraising Tops $700,000 After Outburst

An excellent article in Forbes.  With great visual aides:

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

"A secret and more or less permanent dissident database--in America! That's quite an accomplishment for an administration still in its seventh month."

...why American health care is good.

UPD:

The way it really was.

P.S. De mortuis—veritas.

An excellent article at Hotair on the Uninsured, and Ford posts a profit.  In the middle of a recession.  Toyota's losing money, ferchrissakes!

Не знаю--мне Кот Матроскин больше нравится, как-то...

Итак, подводя итого кошачьего ликбеза, выясняем, что: твоя подруга – пантера Багира

Черная пантера-аристократка. Умна, грациозна, пластична. Бесстрашна и хитра. Согласно книге Киплинга Багира - самец, однако в классическом русском переводе «Маугли», а также в советском мульфильме «Маугли», Багира - женского пола. Багира родилась в неволе в зверинце раджи, и после смерти матери начала тосковать по свободе. Когда она достаточно выросла и стала сильной, то смогла сломать замок клетки и сбежать в джунгли, где благодаря своей хитрости и проворности завоевала уважение всех зверей, кроме тигра Шер-Хана. Всё это Багира однажды рассказывает Маугли, и никто, кроме него, не знает, что когда-то она сидела на цепи

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In literature, an idealized concept of uncivilized man, who symbolizes the innate goodness of one not exposed to the corrupting influences of civilization.
The glorification of the noble savage is a dominant theme in the Romantic writings of the 18th and 19th centuries, especially in the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

These are the same ideas being purveyed by modern liberals. "Imagine there's no countries..."     I believe, that is their hymn.

...And the harsh reality: