"One of my best friends was killed in gun violence right around here," he said, "so it's important to me."
He added he was unsure if gun violence can be ended, adding: "But this is what we can do, so I'm here to do it."
ADDED: Perhaps you didn't know that the phrase "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" was based on a headline on a gun magazine. John talks about that in the clip I've embedded, and here's Rolling Stone's description of the song (which it ranked, in 2011, as #24 on its list of "100 Greatest Beatles Songs" (personally, I ranked it #1 for a long time (and don't have any current ranking))):
The title was inspired by a headline in a gun magazine George Martin had showed Lennon that read Happiness is a Warm Gun — a variation on Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz's 1962 bestseller Happiness Is a Warm Puppy. "I thought it was a fantastic, insane thing to say," Lennon said. "A warm gun means that you just shot something."Remember "Happiness Is a Warm Puppy"? It's kind of the worst of "Peanuts":
There were very rare moments of soft cheese in Peanuts'piquancy. For example, Lucy hugging Snoopy and declaring "Happiness is a warm puppy." That moment turned into a pioneering "book," composed of "Happiness is … " messages with accompanying drawings by Schulz, that became the No. 1 "nonfiction" work of 1963, and a prime mover in the Peanuts merchandising empire...I associate that non-edgy commercialization of "Peanuts" with a lot of 1960s/1970s idiocy, especially that atrocious cartoon "Love Is..." Unless I'm mistaken, every page of "Happiness is a Warm Puppy" begins with "Happiness is..." and some other damned nice thing. I'm trying to look inside the book at Amazon, and I can't see enough pages to be sure, but I'm grossed out by the introduction: "Now more than ever, we need the simple exuberance that Charles Schulz and his gang of Peanut-sized philosophers so perfectly express."
In the strip, Schulz would mock both merchandising and himself. When Lucy tried a second time to snatch Snoopy's warmth for her own happiness, he growled back, "My mother didn't raise me to be a heating pad!" Schulz himself said it best: "Anybody who says Peanuts is cute is just crazy." But he also enabled the merchandising machine....
Oh, that's a new introduction, written for the 2006 edition. I guess "Now more that ever" meant now that we've got the worst President ever, George Bush. Anyway, the original edition came out before the arrival of The Beatles and even before John F. Kennedy was — bang bang shoot shoot — shot.
When The Beatles did arrive, they sold the ultimate niceness: Love. And then we lapped up "Love is..."
Click to enlarge. Yes, adult partners are pictured as naked juveniles who have no genitalia but who are sexually attracted to each other and go to bed together, dressed, at long last, in pajamas. This one-panel comic has been running, in that mind-crushingly limited form, since 1970. I certainly haven't read even a small percentage of the panels that have run over the decades, but I'm just going to bet that neither the man nor the woman has ever said anything as rejecting as "My mother didn't raise me to be a heating pad!"
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Hey, McCartney, why not head over to Chicago, Baltimore, St Louis... and tell those people to quit killing each other and innocent bystanders. If you're not willing to do that, then turn in your Sir card.
One of my best friends was killed in gun violence right around here," he said, "so it's important to me.
So everything is about you, innit?
Wow. I just commented in the Emma S post about Yoko Ono's art, and Lennon meeting her at her exhibition in 1966.
I click back to the main page and now there is a post with the Yoko Ono tag. About John Lennon.
Bang Bang Shoot Shoot.
The Germans have a word for this.
What's the difference between a bass player who's not Paul McCartney and a 16" pizza?
The pizza can feed a family of four.
I wrote something semi-snarky, erased it and thought to myself "you know, well good on Sir Paul". I may not agree with him but what's that got to do with anything?
Is McCartney a citizen? If not, will Robert Mueller indict him for interfering in our political system?
Btw, Sir Paul, I believe mentl illness was a significant contributing factor in Lennon's murder.
Btw2, Robert Mueller must be a dumbass-his name should be pronounced "muler" not "muller".
A fundamental, but seldom discussed reality of banning guns, other than faciliating government tyranny up to and including mass murder, is that the streets end up belonging to the physically strong and mean. At the age of 61, I don't pack the punch that I formerly did, but slugs from my .45 still have plenty of stopping power.
Addendum: the snark factor on Alhouse comment threads gets old thread after thread after thread. And I'm a part of that and have been now for almost a decade. Mea culpa.
McCartney must be wrong.
New York City has laws against guns.
And murder.
And I would be astonished if Sir Paul hasn't had armed bodyguards ever since Chapman shot John.
Btw2, Robert Mueller must be a dumbass-his name should be pronounced "muler" not "muller".
In parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota it's pronounced 'Miller'.
And tonight, Stormy Daniels will tell all about Donald Trump's warm gun on 60 Minutes! Gosh, does anyone think there is a chance that Donald Trump really was a playboy as we were led to believe for all those years?
Why do you favor abridging the Constitutional rights of law abiding citizens, Mr. McCartney? Because this is what we can do so I’m here to do it. The Parkland kids are grieving teenagers unconscionably manipulated by adults, what’s his excuse?
I think his "warm gun" was something much more friendlier and even exciting.
I briefly tuned in to some of the coverage of these Marches, and kept hoping to see some of the participating celebrities vow to dispense with their armed bodyguards (maybe even McCartney?), at home as well as on the road. Alas, didn't see or hear anything like that, nor have I read any such reports so far today.
"It was a collage"
For all of his talent, John Lennon was a lazy song writer.
I want a story, not a collage.
It's disheartening to see that the response to School Shootings is apparently to give the Government more power.
I've been thinking about a song we sang in 7th Grade Choir. "Freedom isn't Free"
Do young impressionable kids sing this song anymore?
Not only do they not sing that song, MadMan, they couldn't imagine the concept.
Here is the fun part: McCartney is correct that he cannot do more than talk. There is no plan to disarm America.
Chickenhawks know that this is all political theater.
I will not rest until TTR, ARM, and Hogg are banging through America's front doors to disarm American citizens. They must be encouraged to follow their convictions to their logical enfs.
Re what Oso Negro wrote about Sir Paul's armed bodyguards: today's (or maybe last night's) Instapundit has two worthwhile articles on Herr Oberlieutenant Hogg's Kindermarchen: one is about all the "derp" coming out of the Anti-Gun Jugend; and another talking about how the march itself as well as many celebrities participating are protected by armed guards. No surprise on that last one: the priesthood of the Anointed must be safeguarded at all costs!
One of the articles has a photo of Herr Oberlieutenant Hogg at the rally giving the clenched-fist salute to his troops. Perfect. The writer refers to him as "the most punchable face on television today," and looking at that photo of the little twerp, you can see why.
A penis is a warm gun.
No one wants to blame American Hillarywoodland violence on TV and in movies.
You don’t still turn Meade’s head, Professor? Meade, do you want to weigh in here?
B-grade Hollywood violence is really bad. The A-grade stuff is good.
Someone ask Sir Paul what the UK is going to ban next after knives....cricket bats? Hammers?
Happiness is a warm gun...
Imagine there's no countiries, it isn't hard to do....
Love, love love, loveisallyouneed, allyouneed....
Anti-gun, anti-borders, communism advocated by a multi-millionaires living in gated communities with armed guards.
Beatles showed us the way to the future.
Rock Stars and Rappers Who Have Killed People:
Phil Spector
Vince Neil
Sid Vicious
Jim Gordon
Keith Moon
Snoop Dogg
Brandy Norwood
C-Murder
So: ban Rock Stars and Rappers.
Obviously.
The Germans have a word for this.
Happiness is a warm gun...
Imagine there's no countiries, it isn't hard to do....
Love, love love, loveisallyouneed, allyouneed....
Anti-gun, anti-borders, communism advocated by a multi-millionaires living in gated communities with armed guards.
Beatles showed us the way to the future.
Did anyone who heard "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" actually think that gun was a reference to a firearm?
Akin to "Love Is...", another 70s bit of trite:
"Love means never having to say you're sorry"
From Wiki:
"Love means never having to say you're sorry" is a catchphrase based on a line from the Erich Segal novel Love Story and was popularized by its 1970 film adaptation starring Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal. The line is spoken twice in the film: once in the middle of the film, by Jennifer Cavalleri (MacGraw's character), when Oliver Barrett (O'Neal) apologizes to her for his anger; and as the last line of the film, by Oliver, when his father says "I'm sorry" after learning of Jennifer's death...
...The line has also been criticized or mocked, for suggesting that apologies are unnecessary in a loving relationship. Another character played by O'Neal disparages it in the 1972 screwball comedy What's Up, Doc?: Barbra Streisand's character says "Love means never having to say you're sorry." while batting her eyelashes, and O'Neal's character responds in a deadpan voice, "That's the dumbest thing I ever heard."
I feel like going and reading 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull' now.
The Germans have a word for this.
Revolver is the best Beatles album.
Here's an interesting story about gun control I just read about. In the early Soviet Union ordinary citizens were, of course, forbidden to own arms. Communist Party members, however, in deference to their past history as revolutionaries were allowed to keep their guns. Kirov was a personal friend of Stalin and the poobah in Leningrad. He was shot by a fellow Comminist with a gun that he was legally entitled to own. The shooting was not political. Kirov was a philanderer and he was shot by a jealous husband. After the shooting, Communist Party members lost the privilege of owning firearms. There were no more shootings by jealous husbands, and the Soviet Union went on to become one of the most peaceful and tranquil states known to man.
One of my best friends was killed in gun violence right around here," he said, "so it's important to me.
Another of his best friends was recently knighted and is now known as Sir Richard Starkey. Forgive me for being a cynic; but this smacks of ego soothing as he is now no longer the only Beatle with a knighthood.
Sure, it’s annoying when celebrities show up at demonstrations, but no celebrity has proven more consistently amicable in his public statements than Paul McCartney. So when I see the comments that rip him to shreds over such harmless words (or probably just for being there in the first place,) it says a whole lot more about the commenter than the speaker. I do not assume that everyone who showed up yesterday is a gun-grabbing socialist, do you? -willie
"It's disheartening to see that the response to School Shootings is apparently to give the Government more power."
I think esp here, in the aftermath of a completely preventable mass school shooting. The govt mandates that kids go to school through essentially high school. And the school's become sinecures for government teachers and administrators. The government buys votes through welfare, that subsidizes fatherless child rearing, which results in increased violence in teenagers, which ends of being seen significantly in the schools (that the govt is mandating those kids to attend). Rising school crime and violence in schools resulted in the hiring of school resource officers, who in this case are sheriff's deputies. Being better than working the streets, that job too became a government sinecure. So, maybe no surprise that this government employee, enjoying his last years before retirement, hid, instead of running to the sound of gunfire. It turns out, of course, that a good part of why the school was so violent was because the federal govt was paying the local govt for such, by financially rewarding the county and school district for ignoring crimes. Meanwhile, governments at all levels, from the FBI down to Broward Cowards, knew all about the future shooter for several years befote his slaying spree, and essentially did nothing, despite apparently > 40 reports from numerous people about his violent tendencies. Nothing.
So, the proposed solution to this mess created mostly by governments, is to seize the guns of the law abiding people who want, nay need, them to protect themselves because governments have been so inept at protecting them. Makes no sense going along with this nonsense. Government is the problem, or at least causes the problems, and is not the solution. Or at least a credible one.
Really good stuff; never laughed so hard since a blog a few days ago, can't remember what it was about but, so what?
@ Bruce H.
Meanwhile, governments at all levels, from the FBI down to Broward Cowards, knew all about the future shooter for several years befote his slaying spree, and essentially did nothing, despite apparently > 40 reports from numerous people about his violent tendencies. Nothing.
Much more Fun for the democrats to blame the NRA and use it as a way to flush their dark money campaigns.
Darrell said...
One of my best friends was killed in gun violence right around here," he said, "so it's important to me.
So everything is about you, innit?"
Everything in his world has been about him since 1963. That's 55 years ago. Can a man who has been that famous that long even remember clearly what it was like to be just another bloke from Liverpool? Memories of simply walking down a city street unnoticed by anyone must, at this point, be very hazy for Sir Paul (and Sir Mick and Sir Ringo - and Dylan.) The days when nobody particularly gave a shit what they said or thought about anything are so far in the past that they have come to the conclusion that everyone in the world gives a shit what they think about everything.
And it doesn't take 55 years for that mentality to develop. Just a few years in the limelight will do it.
Actually, for shooter's, happiness can be a warm gun. For me, little is more mentally therapeutic than time shooting at a range. And that usually means 100 rounds shot in fairly short order. Which is sufficient to heat up a gun.
I don't much care for shooting at a range-- way too loud and hate to wear those ear protectors. Shooting in the backyard is more fun although I have to be careful what is behind the target-- I miss a lot. And .22 is much better than .30 and .38 cal. for noise.
the Soviet Union went on to become one of the most peaceful and tranquil states known to man.
Especially in the Gulag.
Stormy Daniels.
Has the gun-control movement overtaken the sex-control movement?
Mattress Girl.
Sex Robots.
Happiness is a Warm Gun.
The arc of Althouse today bends towards sex.
and
'Stormy Daniels and Mattress Girl' makes me think of this (from Wiki):
'Electra Woman and Dyna Girl' is a Sid and Marty Krofft live action science fiction children's television series from 1976....
The program followed the crime-fighting exploits of female caped crusader Electra Woman (played by Deidre Hall) and her teen sidekick Dyna Girl (Judy Strangis), who worked in their off-time as reporters for Newsmaker Magazine (The full real names of the two were never revealed in any of the installments, although their first names were Lori and Judy, respectively.) In each episode, the duo would don skintight spandex in a bright flash of light called an "Electra-Change," get into the "ElectraCar," and use an array of technically advanced gadgets to thwart an eclectic collection of supervillains. They were assisted by Frank Heflin (Norman Alden), a scientist who stayed at their "ElectraBase," operating its highly sophisticated "CrimeScope" computer, a parody of the BatComputer, while keeping in continual contact with the pair through their "ElectraComs." Electra Woman and Dyna Girl was basically a female version of Batman and Robin with Dyna Girl uttering phrases like "Electra Wow!" or "Electra Yikes!" and so on...."
Which leads to this:
"TV Shows With Two Names in the Title: Rules for Picking Those Names!"
"1. If the TV show is a drama, use last names.
Generally speaking, first-name-only titles like Will & Grace, Mork & Mindy, Dharma & Greg, Laverne & Shirley, and Kath & Kim are reserved for comedies. (This is not necessarily true for movies, as Bonnie and Clyde and Thelma & Louise make clear).
2a. Of the two names, one should be one syllable ...
One syllable names are crisp, keep the title from going on, and can sound badass. Followers of this rule include: Starsky and Hutch, Turner & Hooch, Crockett & Tubbs, Cheech & Chong, Calvin & Hobbes, Tango & Cash, Ren & Stimpy, and the aforementioned Mork & Mindy and Will & Grace.
2b. Cagney & Lacey are both two syllables, but they do end with the same sound. Beavis and Butthead both start with the same sound, as do Cheech & Chong, and Mork & Mindy. The Captain & Tennille both have that nice hard T.
Rule Followed? Sort of: Rizzoli and Isles do both have an "L" sound, though in neither case is it the dominant vocative. (That's right, we said dominant vocative.)..."
Althouse even has a Tag like this: 'Althouse + Meade'.
But with Althouse + Meade I am not sure which one is the Strasky and which one is the Hutch.
The Germans have a word for this.
@Unknown Willie — The words, “I want to take away your rights because it’s what we can do, although I’m unsure if it will end gun violence” are not harmless. I don’t disagree that Paul is generally amicable, but when he’s not, he’s not.
And that usually means 100 rounds shot in fairly short order. Which is sufficient to heat up a gun.
I've been shooting 50 through each gun. I have to work on it since I keep pulling to the left. I'm grabbing with all fingers, I think.
The strikes are all in the one foot square target but left of the X ring.
More practice.
I'm pretty sure that M-14 I used in basic rifle training, ruined my hearing though. Left ear ruined for right handed shooters. The army didn't tell us about hearing damage or give us any protective devices. Don't know if they do today or not.
Imagine there's no bloviating celebs.
Imagine there's no clueless kids acting as founts of moral wisdom.
Imagine there's no ignorance about the actual Constitution.
The gun experts will know about when I took basic based on use of the M-14.
William said...
Did anyone who heard "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" actually think that gun was a reference to a firearm?
3/25/18, 10:09 AM
It's funny to me that gun grabbers frequently accuse gun owners of using guns as a phallic symbol and a way of buttressing an insecure sense of masculinity. For one thing, it ignores all the women who own guns. The only people who think guns = penises in the minds of gun owners are anti-gun people. It's the gun haters who keep making the analogy. I've never once heard a male gun owner refer to his guns in any sort of sexual sense and if I did, I would steer well clear of that guy.
Gun owners see guns as useful tools, pieces of metal which can be employed for good or ill. It's anti-gun people who invest inanimate objects with all sorts of (malevolent) meaning and then project their own neurotic fabrications onto gun owners.
"TV Shows With Two Names in the Title: Rules for Picking Those Names!"
Comedy duos use last names, i.e. Laurel & Hardy, Burns & Allen, Abbott & Costello, Martin & Lewis, Rowan & Martin, Allen & Rossi, and of course the Smothers Brothers.
Meade and Althouse fit this rule.
A warm gun is one thing, but you don't want it to get too warm that you start 'cooking off' rounds. Of course, you need a rifle barrel to be warmed up for accuracy purposes, so there's that. I'm loading .303 and .308 rounds today for trips to the range Monday and Tuesday, my wife is a no shooting on Sunday girl.
tcrosse,
Interesting, we were talking about comedy teams recently at work. The carry-over into cartoons is remarkable with the straight-smart man / idiot trope repeated. Ren and Stimpy, Pinky and the Brain, Cat Dog, etc.
I do believe that the UK must have a Ministry of Fake News.
"Scientists have been left baffled by a wild elephant caught on camera blowing out plumes of smoke while consuming smouldering lumps of charcoal."
"smoke" = dust.
"smouldering" = what the lumps of charcoal were not doing.
"Happiness is a warm gun." Well, sometimes not so very. As Germany was collapsing, some of the remaining troops, mostly snipers, would shoot Allied troops until they ran out of ammo, strip the scope from the gun, and surrender. Hence the rule for our guys - my father's contemporaries, not really "ours" now - if the surrenderer's gun was warm, shoot him dead on the spot.
Scientists have been left baffled by a wild elephant caught on camera blowing out plumes of smoke while consuming smouldering lumps of charcoal.
The scientists were Indian. And they had just experienced Hillary's smoke blowing session, so they had cause to be confused.
@PJ - Those weren’t his words. That is an assumption that attendance at the rally is an endorsement of gun grabbing. That’s how media wants us to see it, but I think the reality is far less precise. Rallies and demonstrations are more about shared feelings than policy disputes. -willie
"It took the Beatles 70 takes over two nights..."
Bonkers...
"Ate and donated to the National Trust," for instance, is a reference to people shitting on public land..."
This "song" is donated to the National Trust...
Not one of the usual shameless trolls around here sees the irony in the fact that John Lennon was assassinated by a psychotic David Mark Chapman with a .38 Special in 1980. You guys are a truly disgusting and deplorable bunch of macho assholes. You are more loathsome and idiotic than Trump himself.
You guys are a truly disgusting and deplorable bunch of macho assholes. You are more loathsome and idiotic than Trump himself.
And yet I can't stay away. Look what you made me do !
"sees the irony"
I don't think it's ironic - perhaps just coincidental or merely odd.
"Rallies and demonstrations are more about shared feelings than policy disputes. -willie"
They are Democrat Get Out the Vote rallies.
Blogger Trumpit said...
Not one of the usual shameless trolls around here sees the irony in the fact that John Lennon was assassinated by a psychotic David Mark Chapman with a .38 Special in 1980.
Why irony ?
Chapman was psychotic. That is what the story about most of these mass shooters is.
.38 special is a revolver. Ban revolvers if you want to.
Try to make sense.
William said...
Did anyone who heard "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" actually think that gun was a reference to a firearm?
******************
Certainly not after hearing Lennon say, "When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger..."
John Lennon wrote the song "Happiness is a warm gun." His death by an assasin's gun wasn't a happy occasion, and was. of course. ironic. The lameness in the comments by paunchy, balding aging, impotent men turns my stomach. Fortunately, I have my standby:
"Alka-Seltzer effervescent tablets are used for: Treating headaches, body aches, pain, heartburn, acid indigestion, and sour stomach. It may also be used for other conditions as determined by your doctor."
If you pronounce the title in a French accent, it becomes "a penis is a warm gun."
I liked the way he explains "Mother Superior jumped the gun" as a reference to Yoko jumping to conclusions, then she does it again right in the recording.
I am not balding!
The 38 special is a round of ammunition, not a gun.
The neat thing is, I can shoot them in my pistol along with the 357 magnum round. Which makes it a dual-use weapon (plinking and survival). I mean, I need a magnum round about once every 3 years.
Talk about needing hearing protection! uff da...
David Hogg, is the gun control crusader that the anti-gun media have made the most visible since 17 of his schoolmates were massacred.
Hogg is suddenly upset with new security protocols that Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is putting into place in the aftermath of last month’s mass shooting. Students will now be required to use clear, see-through backpacks only - provided free of charge to help prevent hidden weapons on campus.
Now it seems that he is worried about infringement of his right to secrecy but infringement of the constitutional right to possess firearms is fine.
"Mama says, 'Stupid is as stupid does.'" ~Forrest Gump.
I mean, I need a magnum round about once every 3 years.
Talk about needing hearing protection!
She's a screamer then?
Love is a Battlefield.
"Not one of the usual shameless trolls around here sees the irony in the fact that John Lennon was assassinated by a psychotic David Mark Chapman with a .38 Special in 1980."
From the internet:
• Chapman dropped into a crouch and fired four shots into Lennon’s back. Chapman remained at the scene of the crime, sitting on the sidewalk reading his dog-eared copy of 'The Catcher in the Rye.. Inside the front cover, he had penned the following inscription: “This is my statement. [signed] Holden Caulfield.”
• John Hinckley, Jr. who attempted to kill President Reagan, and wounded four others, was also enamored with 'The Catcher in the Rye'...
• As for JFK’s killer Lee Harvey Oswald, The Catcher in the Rye was found in a raid on his Dallas, Texas apartment after the assassination. His other books included George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Although unconfirmed, it has been claimed by a few sources that Oswald was very keen on Salinger’s novel, which apparently was his favorite...
• Actress Rebecca Schaeffer made a name for herself appearing in the television series, My Sister Sam, which premiered in 1986. In 1989, she was stalked and killed by Robert Bardo, an obsessed fan... ...When he was fleeing the scene of the shooting, he tossed away a copy of 'The Catcher in the Rye.'
There are also rumors that Sirhan Sirhan was enamored with the book.
So: the obvious.
Anyway, Chapman fired five shots, and not one hit Yoko. Even with her standing right there.
I am not "disgusting and deplorable", I am just conspiratorial.
The Germans have a word for this.
"...paunchy, balding aging, impotent men turns my stomach."
Warm guns make impotent men...
A funny term we used to say was "if you shoot them, it will drop their dick in the dirt."
To which I always visualized the dick falling off and making a little cloud of dirt, sort of like Wile E. Coyote.
I have no "stomach" for whining today. The whinings of a lonesome hugging dog.
Paul thinks that meat is murder. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
Rallies and demonstrations are more about shared feelings than policy disputes.
Yeah, no political hay to be made there. No pressure on Congress critters to lean left there.
I'm sure that after this brief period the kids and enablers will all go home, say, "That was cathartic", and care less how gun laws are fashioned.
I wrote earlier:
"It's funny to me that gun grabbers frequently accuse gun owners of using guns as a phallic symbol and a way of buttressing an insecure sense of masculinity. For one thing, it ignores all the women who own guns. The only people who think guns = penises in the minds of gun owners are anti-gun people."
And then along comes Trumpit:
"The lameness in the comments by paunchy, balding aging, impotent men turns my stomach."
See what I mean? Thanks for illustrating my point, nimrod! You win a tasty venison steak!
I think the modern economy must be largely dependent on strife and fear, i.e. it’s what backs fiat currency. Also, did you hear the one about the billionaire who went broke? Neither did I! -willie
Althouse wrote: Perhaps you didn't know that the phrase "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" was based on a headline on a gun magazine.
Honestly, I always assumed it was a sexual metaphor. Thanks for the schooling.
"At the end of the first act we went out with all the other jerks for a cigarette. What a deal that was. You never saw so many phonies in all your life..."
"What I liked about her, she didn’t give you a lot of horse manure about what a great guy her father was. She probably knew what a phony slob he was..."
“One of the biggest reasons I left Elkton Hills was because I was surrounded by phonies. That’s all. They were coming in the goddam window..."
"I can just see the big phony bastard shifting into first gear and asking Jesus to send him a few more stiffs..."
"“Lawyers are all right, I guess — but it doesn’t appeal to me,” I said. “I mean they’re all right if they go around saving innocent guys’ lives all the time, and like that, but you don’t do that kind of stuff if you’re a lawyer. All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hot-shot. How would you know you weren’t being a phony? The trouble is, you wouldn’t..."
"Don't lie to us. Don't make any more false promises, because when you do, children die.."
"‘It just makes me think what sick f***ers out there want to continue to sell more guns, murder more children, and honestly get reelected..."
'Our parents don’t know how to use a f***ing democracy, so we have to.’
"At this point, our politicians are like really stupid sharks that think they have power but honestly don't..."
The Germans have a word for this.
It may also be used for other conditions as determined by your doctor."
I thought you hated doctors. Try to be more consistent.
Or at least as consistent as your ailment allows.
Althouse wrote: Perhaps you didn't know that the phrase "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" was based on a headline on a gun magazine.
I thought the song was about heroin:
I need a fix 'cause I'm going down
Down to the bits that I left uptown
I need a fix 'cause I'm going down
The gun referred to the needle & syringe, & it was warm because the heroin had to be melted to be injected. I also remember, even though it may now be fuzzy memory from years ago, that Lennon swallows the "s" when he says:
"When I hold you in my arm(s)
And feel my finger on your trigger"
so that it sounds like "hold you in my arm".
Unfortunately, I can't find the version from White Album as released in the US in 1968(?)on YouTube to check my memory.
The song WAS about Heroin usage.
If you pronounce the title in a French accent, it becomes "a penis is a warm gun."
If you pronounce the French in English it is: le bonheur est un pistolet chaud
The boner is a piss-toy-laid show
Food for thought: if the private gun-owners is compensating for inadequate genitals (I guess Tammy Bruce is a case of penis envy), then what is the average statist compensating for? Their penis substitute would be the State, which has thousands if not millions of guns, and a legion of minions trained in their use.
BUMBLE BEE said...The song WAS about Heroin usage.
It was about his penis and Yoko's hairy cunt. She was so hairy the album cover was rejected, so they just left it white.
Then a few years later they pushed it again, and finally the world could see Yoko's hairy body and sperm all over the bed for $1.89.
“I've been shooting 50 through each gun. I have to work on it since I keep pulling to the left. I'm grabbing with all fingers, I think.”
That is what I do when I am in MT. Unfortunately, the plan had been to bring down a second vehicle, and leave it here in AZ, and I was going to bring the rest of the guns down at that time. And she doesn’t want me driving alone (or maybe being alone that long), so that vehicle stayed up there, and the rest of the guns stayed in the gun safe there. What I like doing is loading up 10 magazines, 10 rounds per, and alternating guns every other magazine. Last summer the extra magazines were left down here in the bag I take to the range, so was having to do a lot of loading of magazines in the middle of shooting. Now I have the bag, with all the extra magazines, three pair of ear protectors, and only the one handgun. Which means that I can only shoot 50 rounds without reloading magazines.
The weird thing right now is that I start pulling to the left when I start shooting, and it usually takes about 2 magazines before I correct that, by working on a smooth trigger pull across the break. Then, about half the time it seems, my shots start shifting back to the left on my last magazine or two. But only sometimes. Guy I know in MT, a couple years older than you, swears that you should only shoot 50 rounds at a time. But he lives at a range, and shoots those 50 rounds 365 days a year, and has for many decades.
The therapeutic part of shooting for me is the zen like feeling that I get when concentrating on shooting: sight picture, lean into it, smooth trigger pull across the break, rinse and repeat, until the slide locks back on an empty magazine. Maybe I should be counting shots, but don’t, and am inevitably surprised how quickly I get to that point. I could swear that I only shot 3-4 rounds, and not the full 10 or 15. I watch the pros, who can double tap multiple targets, rapid fire, never wasting shots, and am amazed. Though I was getting a little better at that at the range I belonged to in CO, where I could program the targets to turn towards me for maybe 4-5 seconds for two shots, then away for 15, repeating 5 times (for a 10 round magazine) (of course I programmed the targets - that is what I did for a living for 15 years). Unfortunately, the range here in AZ isn’t nearly that modern (and in MT, it is outdoors, where I have to do everything manually).
"I thought you hated doctors. Try to be more consistent."
You claim to be a doctor. I hate doctors. So, by modus ponens, I hate you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus_ponens
It's all true! Gun rights = freedom. Cuckservative chickenhawk macho men keep guns because impotence. Cold steel is needed when you can no longer lay on the wood.
Jesus Etienne, you went too far. I can never scrub that horrifying image from my brain. If they ever start giving the opposite of viagra to prisoners, it will be called Yoko
“The only people who think guns = penises in the minds of gun owners are anti-gun people."
I agree 100%. At least at the range, you just don’t see anyone trying to compensate for their lack of masculinity very often. Mostly, I think, because that attitude is not welcomed. Probably because no one likes spending time around guys who have that sort of insecurities.
‘You know what you two need? A little comic strip called "love is". It's about two naked eight year olds who are married.’ -Homer Simpson
MadisonMan said: " I've been thinking about a song we sang in 7th Grade Choir. "Freedom isn't Free"
Do young impressionable kids sing this song anymore?"
Apparently not.
Michael K pontificated...
Chapman was psychotic. That is what the story about most of these mass shooters is.
Chapman wasn't a mass shooter.
"The causes of mass murders are multiple and complex: although they rarely seem to be related to psychotic mental pathologies, they are always an expression of suffering that manifests itself in a psychological crisis that is both homicidal and suicidal."
Wow, based on the comments, I guess Beatles 'trump' Peanuts!
I for one don't begrudge Shulz the moments of warmth in "Peanuts", or becoming a bazillionaire from it. In general they flow pretty organically. And of course the Althouse Portal is your gateway to buy the "Complete" Peanuts volumes, which are well worth your attention. (It's interesting that after rather a slump in the 80s, Shulz seemed reenergized towards the end).
I will not rest until TTR, ARM, and Hogg are banging through America's front doors to disarm American citizens. They must be encouraged to follow their convictions to their logical ends.
Indeed.
But here's the thing: Ritmo is everything James Hodgkinson was, but without Hodgkinson's conviction. And gas money.
@Unknown Willie — You are correct that I am assuming Sir Paul knew what the media would do with his words and made a statement that would permit them to do as they wished. I think he is sufficiently media savvy as to permit the inference that he thereby intentionally associated himself with the media narrative. I will admit, however, that it is possible Sir Paul said additional things that would have changed my mind about his intentions but were omitted from the media report.
Guy I know in MT, a couple years older than you, swears that you should only shoot 50 rounds at a time.
I have been alternating between my .45 1911 Colt and my new (used) Walther P 38. Even though it's a new gun (to me) I shoot better with it.
On magazines, I paid extra for the P 38 because extra magazines were included but since moving I can't find them.
I gave one gun bag to my son when we moved but I looked when we were back there last month and did not find them.
I did find P 38 magazines on line and bought two.
We saw "Seven Days at Entebbe" Saturday and, while it isn't very good, I did notice the female terrorist had a P 38 until the last scenes when she had another gun.
It's a distinctive looking gun, sort of like a Luger is.
Howard.
I hear theresa sale at Pottery Barn. You and the rest of the girls might want to go.
Ta.
I do not assume that everyone who showed up yesterday is a gun-grabbing socialist, do you? -willie
When my enemies tell me they're planning to do something? I tend to listen to them.
I see the stalker has a new and fatuous comment about mass shooters. She needs grammar instruction.
“The only people who think guns = penises in the minds of gun owners are anti-gun people."
Again, this is an attempt to get their way by shaming their opponents. Peer pressure. The problem is that peer pressure works much better with women tha for men. And, of course, this charge doesn’t stand up to reality. You hear a lot of discussion about wolves, sheep, and sheepdogs in gun discussions. A lot of guys don’t carry guns and learn to be proficient at their use for their own safety, but rather, for the safety of their family and loved ones, and the population at large. In short, acting as men have been expected to do forever. So, how does that sort of person compare to someone who is willing to depend on the government, the state, for this safety, this protection? Is depending on others for protection more a male, or a female, trait? Most here, I suspect, would agree that it is more female than male. And those who don’t have a somewhat weird concept of masculinity. And very likely cannot rationally and logically explain why depending on government, instead of themselves, for the safety of their loved ones, shows the least bit of masculinity. Rather, to me, at least, it seems to show them being low-T beta males.
@Howard. Happiness is a 1" group.
Michael K can't admit when he's full of shit, can't follow a link, and doesn't understand what quotation marks indicate...
I see the stalker has a new and fatuous comment about mass shooters. She needs grammar instruction.
You bees da funny!
“I have been alternating between my .45 1911 Colt and my new (used) Walther P 38. Even though it's a new gun (to me) I shoot better with it.”
That guy I was talking about was a Marine armorer in Vietnam, which apparently meant that he could get away with sneaking in his own gun - a custom built .45 1911 (might have been more obvious, if he had tried it with anything else at the time). Only gun he ever apparently killed anyone with - several VC, and then someone with a gun to his head. The level that he has shot means that any gun will ultimately wear out, and that 1911 finally did. He has since moved to 9mm Glocks - compact G43 in the summer, and double stack G19 in the winter. Stock, even with those horrid sights, except for a little work on the triggers (which he did for me with my G17).
"The hero who stopped the gunman behind the deadly Texas church massacre said using an AR-15 enabled him to end the bloodshed. In an emotional interview with CRTV’s “Louder With Crowder” on Monday, Stephen Willeford described the gunfight and dramatic car chase that ensued to stop the shooter from slaughtering additional churchgoers"
http://thefederalist.com/2017/11/07/hero-stopped-texas-gunman-couldnt-stopped-without-ar-15/
According to Howard, AR15 Stephen Willeford is a cuckservative chickenhawk macho man who keeps guns because he is impotent.
Coming to the aid of your friends and neighbors and shooting a shooter is being impotent, according to Howard. Lying on the ground praying the gunman doesn't look your way - that's not being impotent.
He has since moved to 9mm Glocks - compact G43 in the summer, and double stack G19 in the winter.
I just bought a new Browning .380. I looks just like the 1911 but is smaller, and of course, ,380 is a smaller round but might be good for targets.
I have a Walther PPK but it scrapes my web space if I fire it much,. Too small for my hand. I'll see if the Browning does that.
Howard should really change his nic to Humpty-Dumpty:
When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
Howard has chosen his own special meaning for the word "impotent."
The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – – that’s all.”
Yep. That's all. Humpty-Dumpty was a leftist.
a song we sang in 7th Grade Choir. "Freedom isn't Free"
First time I heard that it was sung in a presentation in downtown LA by some outfit called Moral Re-Armament. They tried to start a mass uplift movement using kids. This was in 1964 I think.
Don't think the thing ever took off, since other things started happening about that time. But the song had quite the run, didn't it.
A: "BOTH !!"
Q: "Is that a gun, or are you just happy to see me?"
"Happiness, is a warm... (yes it is)...gun!"
BUMBLE BEE said...The song WAS about Heroin usage.
LOL. I don't think they intended it that way, but I guess if you believed it, their art, once they set it free, belongs to the world.
If you play it backwards, it's "nug mraw a si ssenippaH"
So, how does that sort of person compare to someone who is willing to depend on the government, the state, for this safety, this protection?
Well, it’s mixed. In Maryland the shooter was immediately engaged by the school resource officer. Initially these was a question as to whether the SRO killed the shooter with one round or whether the shooter killed himself after being shot at, but either way the SRO did his job and stopped the incident. In Coward County shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School and in the case of the Orlando nightclub shooting the cops sat around outside until the shooting was over. In the Orlando night club incident the police knew from cell phones that there were people hidden in the club who were being methodically hunted down and still they dawdled outside. Is it something about being a cop in Florida?
Anyway, between the FBI ignoring warnings about Cruz and the Coward County Sheriff’s Office ignoring warnings about Cruz and mental health professionals evaluating Cruz and ruling — obviously in error — that he was no threat to himself or others, everyone in a position of responsibility failed the kids in Parkland.
I really enjoy the North-South Skirmish Ass’n. Competitive target shooting with the guns used in the Civil War (replicas,actually — real guns that are shootable are mostly too valuable as collectors items). Those old muzzle loaders are quite a challenge to shoot accurately. The comaradery is also great. The same guy you are competing against may come over and offer advice about stance, or you and he might trade information about powder loading.
@PJ - Thank you, that is fair. Count me among those who believe that the only top-down solution to violence in society is between parents and children. A kinder and more peaceful society is a dead end for leaders and killers alike. I believe most who marched yesterday are just feeling overwhelmed and needed to be around the like-whelmed. It seems better that they march it out of their systems rather than build it up to serious political action! -willie
Until today I understood "Happiness is a Warm Gun" to be about illegal intravenous drug taking.
-sw
The same guy you are competing against may come over and offer advice about stance,
OMG, are they like golfers?
Big Mike,
I agree, most shooting groups end up talking shop. Most normal thing in the world to me. I'm waiting on a 1690 reproduction English dog lock musket. Should be here in a week or so. Lottery at work to see who pops the first cap, as it were. Real 2nd Amendment stuff. The dog lock was as old to the Framers as the AR-15 is to folks today.
Revolver is the best Beatles album.
Yes and no.
Being an American of a certain age (66) my purchases were the Capitol Records releases. After they broke up, I proclaimed Sgt. Pepper's as their best.
Then the CDs came out and were the original Parlophone compilations. The addition of "I'm Only Sleeping", "And Your Bird Can Sing" and "Doctor Robert" made quite a difference.
Revolver is now #1
OMG, are they like golfers?
I wouldn’t know because I don’t golf. Game seems too easy — you put a little white ball on the ground, you swing a golf club at it, you say “aw shit!” and repeat a hundred or so times.
Sir Paul is a big fan of the Obamas, too, and apparently a fan of Big Government.
Somehow the basic message of Taxman must have been lost on him.
Happiness is, obviously, a perception of the beholder. However, when a psycho has exploited the Planned Parent loophole, or a run-of-the-mill abortionist lays in wait to deem you unworthy, or a social jurist pursues redistributive change, or a rape-rapist sets his eyes on a delectable Pussy Hat or a secondary orifice and receptacle, then happiness is her or his election and choice of a warm gun. Your mileage will vary with a scalpel that does not enjoy legal leverage outside of a Planned Parenthood sanctuary.
Happiness is a part-time job in the country.
https://goo.gl/8cWYCW
Happiness is a part-time job in the country.
https://goo.gl/8cWYCW
Shooting... A party or gathering where narcotics users take injections : in a fellow musician's hotel room during a ''shooting gallery'' (dope party) (1950s+ Narcotics)
White album released 11/69. Lennon later admitted he was addicted to heroin at the time of the Plastic Ono Band's performance at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival on 13 September 1969.
"We were full of junk too. I just threw up for hours till I went on. I nearly threw up in Cold Turkey"
Cold Turkey, musta arrived late for Thanksgiving???
"Btw, Sir Paul, I believe mentl illness was a significant contributing factor in Lennon's murder."
Well...yes. Compounded by the significant contributing factor that the mentally ill person had a gun and used it to kill Lennon.
"A fundamental, but seldom discussed reality of banning guns, other than faciliating government tyranny up to and including mass murder, is that the streets end up belonging to the physically strong and mean. At the age of 61, I don't pack the punch that I formerly did, but slugs from my .45 still have plenty of stopping power."
Do you really feel the streets of American towns and cities are so dangerous, so filled with "strong and mean" predators, that fist-fights and shootouts are apt to be common experiences?
I've lived in NYC for nearly 40 years, (covering the "bad old days" of the 80s), and I've never been in a fist fight (or a situation where I was even faintly fearful of that), much, much less any situation where a gunfight was likely.
Robert Cook said...
Do you really feel the streets of American towns and cities are so dangerous, so filled with "strong and mean" predators, that fist-fights and shootouts are apt to be common experiences?
No. We just look at the dozens of instances in history where the left went and beat up or killed their political opponents to seize power and once they had control of the government used it to kill millions of people and starve the rest.
Achilles: When did you transition from man to cunt? I understand that you seem to be able to switch back and forth between the two settings, but I think it's fair to say that you are operating at about 80% cunt for the last couple months.
Is it a PTS defense mechanism?
Do you really feel the streets of American towns and cities are so dangerous,
Certain neighborhoods in them? Definitely.
so filled with "strong and mean" predators, that fist-fights and shootouts are apt to be common experiences?
Let's ask Chicago, Baltimore, and Detroit to start with.
Well...yes. Compounded by the significant contributing factor that the mentally ill person had a gun and used it to kill Lennon.
Would you feel better if he had used a knife?
Robert Cook said...I've lived in NYC for nearly 40 years, (covering the "bad old days" of the 80s), and I've never been in a fist fight...
That I can believe.
Blogger Robert Cook said...
Do you really feel the streets of American towns and cities are so dangerous, so filled with "strong and mean" predators, that fist-fights and shootouts are apt to be common experiences?
Some of us live in grittier neighborhoods, Robert. The local SWAT team on my street took down my next door neighbor's son after the second stolen car one man crime spree had a baby in the back seat. He thoughtfully left the baby in the parking lot of the local Church's Fried Chicken, but that didn't stop the police from bringing their MRAP to the arrest. He was already a convicted felon, so the new gun charges and possession of heroin and ecstasy with intent to distribute won't look so good for him either. The neighbors have been on to him for years. So yeah, given his 15 cousins, I am pretty comfortable with a 12-gauge Saiga and a 20-round magazine, in addition to my .45.
Dude. You gotta move.
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