Got some great links for you today. First of all, Kim has a set of links for gun nuts, encompassing just about everything. I swear, if there's any info I need about guns, I can get it from Kim du Toit or from one of his many links. The only thing I would add to his list is an essay by Jeff Snyder called "A Nation of Cowards". According to Geek with a .45, Mr. Snyder has put out a book by that same name. That's one I'll have to add to my library. In any case, Mr. Snyder's essay is well worth reading, and the website states that you can print it out or copy it if you wish, with the usual "Don't use it for commercial uses" caveat.

Cold Fury has a piece on Sean Penn's new trip to Iraq. It's not as harsh as you might think.

The Smallest Minority has found (through Keepandbeararms.com) a LA times op-ed that he actually agrees with.

A little bad news: The DoD has failed to meet it's deadline to equip soldiers with the bodyarmor they need. There are political appointees and blood-sucking pencil-pushers infesting the Pentagon, and they need to be removed. Of course, now that they've fastened themselves on to the nanny-state like ticks, it's going to be hard to get them out. But mark my words, it's crap like this that will bring the military down. Some pansy-assed REMF who refuses to put in an order until it's been filled out in triplicate, signed, dated, and approved by the next three people in command, and our soldiers are dying in the meantime because they haven't got any body armor. It's fucking bullshit, and whoever is responsible for it needs to be strung up by their scrotum and beaten to death. I guess there are still people in the Pentagon who haven't figured out that we're at war.

Look, my dad was a logistics officer when he was in Viet Nam. He'd spent time in Okinawa before the war, where the main warehouses are. At one point, his Marine Regiment was running low on a lot of things. Not just hard to get items, but basic shit that Marines need to do their job. So my dad takes a stack of requisition forms to the BC and says "Sir, would you sign these, please?" The BC looks at the forms as says "There's no quantity listed." Dad just nods.

The next day dad hops on a C-130 to Okinawa and goes to the warehouses, which he says were damn near bursting with supplies. There were boxes coming out the warehouse seams. So dad gets busy, filling in numbers, and saying "I'll take X of these, and Y of these..." so on and so forth. He makes it back to his Regiment the next day, in a convoy of deuce and a half trucks, full of all the crap he needed. It took a total of three days, and his regiment was re-supplied. If my dad tried to do that today, he'd be court-martialed. As it was, it was thinking in that fashion that earned him his Captain bars.

The pencil-pushers have climbed farther up the ladder, and it shows. The fact that we've been there for months and our soldiers STILL don't have body armor means somebody needs to get fucking FIRED!

Let me finish where I started, with Kim du Toit. He's found an article from the Clairmount Institute titled "Wimps and Barbarians". It's another broadside against the modern feminist establishment who considers the Y chromosome a disease. He also links to someone who tries to refute the piece, but fails miserably. Check out both of them, and read Kim's take on it. He's pretty spot on. Most American males that I know of are opting out of the so-called "Western Feminist" movement. We're tired of it. We don't want to deal with it. And if you look at the country demographics, you can see huge chunks of America just throwing up their hands and saying "The hell with it, and the hell with you".

In the meantime, I'm hungry and need more coffee. See you all later.