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"Palin you'd offer the job to right away, and then you'd sweat until she accepted it.
"McCain would seem like a decent choice, but wouldn't make or break you either way.
"You'd wonder how Obama possibly thought he was qualified, and you'd leave him to be hired by some other company where they fall for people who say all the right things.
"And you'd be telling stories about Biden's interview, and making jokes about it, for years."
Comment by dicentra on Protein Wisdom
Comparing how they did in Gallup polling in July versus the eventual electoral result:
- Mondale and McGovern suffered swings toward the Republicans of 2% and 4% respectively, which in their cases didn't matter much because they started and stayed a devastating 20% or so behind
- In the closer elections Humphrey (1968) suffered a July-November swing to the Republicans of 6%, Dukakis (1988) 16%, Kerry (2004) 9.5%.
In each case in the fall the Northern liberal's support fell off sharply, when the public found out more about them and the policies they supported.
As a Northern liberal (and he's a very orthodox, rather left of center one at that) this 40-year history suggests that Obama would need to have a solid 10% lead in the polls now just to have an even chance in November, quite apart from any racial considerations (which if they materialize on polling day may well cut both ways). - Nomenklatura on Belmont Club
She says these are attempts "to pose as populist 'one of the boys' or an admission that they are not fit to occupy [their] positions". She goes onto give a breakdown of the EU's workings in around ten lines, suggesting she may be right in her assertion that people in power across Europe, "ought to do better than my five-minute effort", when trying to understand the institutions they supposedly govern.
Here is what she said:
The European Union consists of 27 states which share some powers in a bid to deliver a secure, just, prosperous and sustainable future for their 500m citizens, and stability and progress in the world. The European Commission, consisting of former national politicians, draws up proposals for laws and helps implement and enforce them. Those laws are decided by MEPs, who are directly elected to the European parliament every five years, jointly with ministers of national governments comprising the Council. The latter also makes foreign and other policy decisions. National MPs scrutinise or call to account the activities of their governments in the Council. The European Court of Justice rules on the interpretation and claims of breach of EU law
The following is from commenter Dewi_Sant
Here are my ten lines...
Blackmail
Coercion
Fraud
Duress
Intimidation
Squeeze
Pressure
Extort
Bribe
Payoff
- JMagi quoting British Lord Justice Sedley, Speaking on the Redmond-Bate case of 1999
What Happened, Britain?
Comment by Peter in a discussion of Bin Liner's new anti-Mo cartoon tape on Belmont Club
- gridlock2 on hotair
- Dave, Cork, Ireland on No Pasaran
So perhaps we can sleep well tonight because, according the hard core demented Dems, a handful of old white men are really in charge of the world. - anonymous on a Tam thread discussing Bush, Putin, Musharraf, and Chavez.
Now the G3 is a decent rifle. It is a cheap, stamped sheet metal, battle rifle. It has terrible ergonomics, with a hard to use safety, (and this is coming from a guy with gorilla hands), and difficult to use charging handle. It is reliable, because of the roller locking bolt that destroys your brass, and recoils worse than other competing .308 rifles. The FAL smokes the G3, and the only reason the G3 exists is because the Germans were too proud to pay royalties to those uppity Belgians.
- Monster Hunter Nation on a thread of how HK thinks we suck.
By the way, our cheap, mass-produced, stamped sheet metal guns like the G3 and MP5 are the bestest things ever, and totally worth asinine scalpers prices, but note that cheap, mass-produced, stamped sheet metal guns from other countries are commie garbage. Not that it matters, because you're civilians, so we won't sell them to you anyway. Because you suck, and we hate you, but we know you'll be back. We can beat you down like a trailer park wife, but you'll come back, you always do. - HK Marketing Department
All of this found by following links on Uncle.
The men and women of the Left mostly did not start off as their descendants are today. They looked at the horrors of WWI trench warfare, WWII bombings and the Holocaust, SS, Japanese Militarism atrocities, and MAD and thought of ways to stop things from happening. Ways that were "morally pure" and would "work" because their old ways had not worked obviously. What they came up with was destruction of the nation-state and replacement with ... the EU or UN.
Neither organization will EVER launch a war of aggression. But it won't stop say bin Laden from taking over Pakistan, using it's nuclear arsenal to conduct terror-nuke bombings of American cities killing tens of millions and guaranteeing a war of survival between Muslims and Americans.
- fwallace on the Belmont Club discussing a thread on patiotism.
Langtry on Rachel Lucas....It's a discussion of the 'gangsta' style of dress where boys wear their baggy pants so low as to need holdin' up with one hand...underwear rampant.
Mary Mitchell, a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, was very recently writing about this very 'phenomenon'. She said if many of these young men had any idea of the real-life origin of this so-called style, they'd switch to J. Crew immediately.
You see, prison is where the trend started. Granted, that's not unusual for "urban" styles. However, wearing pants down very low (or well below the crack of one's a**) was used by effete gay men as a way of signaling to more masculine men their willingness to serve as substitutes for women (can I tell you how hard it was to describe that in a non-offensive way?!). How then did it come to connote virility in the outside world?
That picture wasn't taken in a gay bar. It was taken during the Walmington-on-Sea Real Ale Festival.
The Buggered Ferret Brewery stand was behind that crowd of blokes and they'd just announced they were handing out free pints of "Foul Ole Ron".
The Remittance Man commenting on Theo Spark on THIS PICTURE (Sorry...the picture link is fixed.)
OK Gimme a second...Naked Chick - Free Pint.
Uh, Free Pint - Naked Chick.
Wait, Wait, I've got it....Uh no.
Naked Chick - Free Pint.........
I despair for the demographics of Jolly ol' Englund.
Worst Congress in history. Send'em ALL home. Start over with 100% new people...citizen legislators instead of career politicians. Period. - Frank on Politico.com Shenanigans
Frank is commenting on this brouhaha.
The purpose of parliamentary procedure is to ensure that the rules are followed by both sides. In this case, the Dems were losing a vote, stopped the voting, and erased the whole matter like it hadn't happened. History is reversible. Several of the commenter's mentioned times when the Republicans tried something of the same ploy.
In a massive flare-up of partisan tensions, Republicans walked out on a House vote late Thursday night to protest what they believed to be Democratic maneuvers to reverse an unfavorable outcome for them.
The flap represents a complete breakdown in parliamentary procedure and a distinct low for the sometimes bitterly divided chamber because members of one party have rarely, if ever, walked off the floor without casting a vote.
The rancor erupted shortly before 11 p.m. as Rep. Michael R. McNulty (D-N.Y.) gaveled close the vote on a standard procedural measure with the outcome still in doubt.
Details remain fuzzy, but numerous Republicans argued afterward that they had secured a 215-213 win on their motion to bar undocumented immigrants from receiving any federal funds apportioned in the agricultural spending bill for employment or rental assistance. Democrats, however, argued the measure was deadlocked at 214-214 and failed, members and aides on both sides of the aisle said afterward.
One GOP aide saw McNulty gavel the vote to a close after receiving a signal from his leaders - but before reading the official tally. And votes continued to shift even after he closed the roll call - a strange development in itself.
Whatever the final tally, acrimony quickly exploded between lawmakers on either side of the aisle as Democratic leaders tried to plot a solution, while parliamentarians on either side argued over protocol.
Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) eventually offered a motion to reconsider, according to floor staff on either side, ostensibly giving members a chance to recast their votes. But the maneuver sparked a chorus of angry protests from the Republicans, yelling “shame” on Democrats, while they returned fire with angry volleys of their own.
When Democrats finally moved to consider the spending bill as the last vote of the night, furious Republicans left the chamber en masse to protest the maneuver. The House eventually recessed at 11:18 p.m. But Republicans quickly discovered that there was no longer any record of the controversial vote and immediately charged Democrats with erasing the bad result.
"Obviously, the Democrats don't want to stand up against illegal immigration - so much so that they're willing to cheat in order to win a vote,' Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) said in an e-mail. "They're desperate - and it shows."
The official House website did not show a record of the vote as of 1 a.m. Friday.
The Wingers walk out and the Moonbats erase the vote...neither party is worth what we pay them, or the power and perks they demand. No wonder the approval rating for Congress is 3% on immigration issues. Yes, you read that right...3% of Americans approve of how Congress handles the illegals.Captain's Quarters has what happened in the last few minutes of the vote.
The President doesn't do much better at 9%, but Congress holds that solid 3% on their handling of Iraq, while the President has 8 times the support at 24%. The question buzzing around the Intr@W3b is - Can Congress hit Zero. I wouldn't put it past them.
I've heard this Congress called the 'Jimmy Carter of Congresses'. Wow, now that hurts.
Update from American Thinker
This morning, Majority Leader Hoyer appeared on the House floor and attempted to calm the waters with an empty apology. Hoyer promised to refer the matter to the House ethics committee for a complete review. An unconvinced Minority Leader John A. Boehner, (R-OH) compared such a solution to sending it into "a black hole."
With the House still in a limbo recess, the two are said to be in conference, supposedly in search of an agreement on how to proceed.
How indeed -- Republicans insist that the Dems violated voting rules and demand that the original vote stand while Dems appear quite happy with the results they chicaned and wish to move on.
Meanwhile, as all major news services continue to cover the tragic Minneapolis bridge collapse exclusively, C-SPAN just aired a group of Republican representatives commenting on last night's debacle.
Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana was first to speak and demanded that their winning vote, which denies taxpayer dollars to provide welfare benefits and free medical insurance to illegal immigrants, must stand. Subsequent speakers spoke of a Democratic party more interested in feeding, educating and sheltering illegals than American citizens.
Brian Bilbray (R-CA) asked rhetorically how we can maintain a representative form of government when voting rules are so easily broken.
Next stop: Single Digit Congressional approval ratings?
It is in the nature of the house for things like this to happen whomever is in charge. I have read that whatever party is in power will gavel down the vote closed when they are winning, or leave the vote open past normal limits in the hopes of strong-arming some more votes. Never in the history of the House has one party gaveled down the vote when they had obviously lost (with no votes left for arm-twisting), and then erased the vote like it never happened. A mistake perhaps.I stand on my opinion...send them all home.
Quotes attributed to Hillary. Compiled by MightySamurai in a comment on the Rachel Lucas Blog."Fairness doesn't just happen. It requires the right government policies."
"F**k off! It's enough that I have to see you shit-kickers every day, I'm not going to talk to you too!! Just do your G*damn job and keep your mouth shut."
(From the book "American Evita" by Christopher Anderson, p. 90 - Hillary to her State Trooper bodyguards after one of them greeted her with "Good morning.")
"You f**king idiot."
(From the book "Crossfire" p. 84 - Hillary to a State Trooper who was driving her to an event.)
"If you want to remain on this detail, get your f**king ass over here and grab those bags!"
(From the book "The First Partner" p. 259 - Hillary to a Secret Service Agent who was reluctant to carry her luggage because he wanted to keep his hands free in case of an incident.)
"We just can't trust the American people to make those types of choices.... Government has to make those choices for people"
(From the book "I've Always Been A Yankee Fan" by Thomas D. Kuiper, p 20 - Hillary to Rep. Dennis Hastert in 1993 discussing her expensive, disastrous taxpayer-funded health care plan)
"I am a fan of the social policies that you find in Europe"
(Hillary in 1996 From the book "I've Always Been A Yankee Fan" by Thomas D. Kuiper, p. 76 - Hillary in 1996)
And the grand-daddy of them all:
"Many of you are well enough off that [President Bush's] tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to have to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
(Hillary grandstanding at a fund raising speech in San Francisco; SFGate.com 6/28/2004.)
Quack Quack, If it walks like a Marxist, talks like a Marxist, and votes like a Marxist, it's Hillary.
A comment on a thread about Two Wars and No Leadership
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The sorry truth is that it hasn't gotten bad enough.
We are still saddled with interfering politicians and political generals. As long as this war is in the realm of the political, whining takes precedence over winning, and agenda is more important than victory.
When it gets really bad is when the guys of all ranks with those sleepy looks take over - you know, the executioners. At certain levels, away from the political and the media - they are there now.
If you unleash those hounds you better have the country and the media on your side. We ain't ready.
An analogy is the French in Algeria. The hounds were unleashed and the military won - but the French people weren't ready for what it took the military to do to win that war. It wouldn't be any different right now in fighting the same enemy. Politics precludes what it would take to really fight the war. For now.
Liberals call themselves "progressive" while conservatives view themselves as traditionalists.
Liberals believe their world view is something new and unique, never having been thought of in the past. In reality the libtards embrace the deviance of ancient Greece, the Socialism of Lenin, and the stupidity of the counterculture 1960's.
There is nothing progressive about cowardice and a self-centered moral compass.
Comment by TJ on Nice Doggie
"Frankly, I think the best argument for electing a Democrat as President is that as long as a Republican is in office the media powers-that-be will refuse to condemn even the worst atrocities on the part of Islamists, for fear of helping the real enemy in the White House." - Glenn Reynolds in a comment to Roger Simon.
How sad and how true.
Since they're here to do work that American's won't do, can we get them to secure the border? - BacaDog
A comment on a discussion on HotAir about a debate between Laura Ingraham and Linda Chavez.
Also, Bush's approval raitings are low, but they're actually higher than that of Congress'. - Fafhrd on Roger Simon
It has been said that a man can be judged by his enemies, and one would assume the same holds true for those agglomerations of men known as "nations". And, while they lacked the suave black-and-silver menace of the Nazis, the postwar Soviets were as worthy a foe as any to have played The Great Game. Fortified borders, huge military parades, drunken madmen who pounded shoes on lecterns while threatening to bury us; these things were the stuff of a generation of air raid drills and spy novels and military speculation.
They've been replaced by our new foes, as depressing a lot as one could imagine: self-immolating neolithic goatherds drunk on a theology that makes the most ignorant snake handler in the backwaters of the Ozarks look like a regular Thomas Aquinas by comparison. May Day parades and fleets of ICBMs have been replaced by a comic opera dictator in a Southwest Asian banana republic hilariously flaunting a Weapons of Mass Destruction program that could be wiped out by the Massachusetts Air National Guard as a weekend training exercise if push came to shove.
Tam and her boomsticks
ZEITGEIST by Bruce Sterling (2000)
Chapter Nine:
'Viktor sighed theatrically "I love they're not democratic. They're not advanced, not market driven, not high tech. They're crooked. One never imagined a badly organized, clumsy, crooked, squalid World Government. Yet here they are at the end of the century, see them there--chain smoking and eating goats."
- Comment by 3Case on the Belmont Club. The comment was for a discussion of "the Seinfeld War" - a war about nothing - in Kosovo and the toothlessness of the UN and especially the EU in their own backyard.
Ever since the capture by Iranian forces of fifteen British naval personnel, the UK news channels have been falling over themselves to praise female British sailor Faye Turney. I have heard her described as "professional" and "well trained" and "sensible".
Really? I beg to differ. From the moment they were captured they should have responded with NOTHING except "Name, rank and serial number". These people have a professional (and legal) requirement to keep their yaps shut and not give aid with their words to a clearly hostile foreign government.
Yet she appears to have written a 'heartfelt' letter home praising the 'kind' and 'warm' Iranians who kidnapped her at gunpoint, admitting the boarding party had strayed into Iranian waters, presumably in return for a kebab.
My equally ex-RN wife's remark upon seeing Turney on TV wearing a headscarf was "I would have thanked them for giving me something I could use to strangle one of the guards with when I eventually make my escape, but if they want me to wear it, well I would have told them exactly where they can..."
My good wife is a forthright person and decorum prevents me from finishing her remarks.
"Professional" and "well trained" my arse. Yet I have the sickening feeling this woman will be lionised when she is eventually released.
- Old Jack Tar commenting on Samizdata
I'm glad some Brit finally said this. I feel exactly the same way. We had 'name, rank, and serial number drilled into our heads constantly. Despite the fact that these troops were obviously abandoned by their commanders, they shouldn't be making such a show of working with their captors without duress greater than a square meal.
That not how we were taught to do it. Maybe the Brits are taught different.
My son has won an appointment to the US Air Force Academy, class of 2011, from the nomination of our fine junior senator. When my son went to be interviewed at the senator's office, the staffer told the aspiring cadets and their families about her own father's history as a World War II pilot. She asked us, "Do you know what the business of the military is?" I smiled and mouthed the reply as she spoke it: "To break things and kill people." I am a retired Air Force officer, so I already knew.
It's a seemingly flip and superficial answer but it holds sober truth and dread honor at its core.
As was the staffer's intent, it got the attention of the other parents, many for perhaps the first time as they contemplated what it really means for one's child to take up the profession of arms. Then in the cathedral quiet that had suddenly descended upon the room she added in a measured and poignant cadence, "and it may well be the duty of some of those of you who take on these grave responsibilities and the commissioning oath to defend this nation and its people, to one day show your men how an officer dies."
It was a matchless, powerful moment, for it was based on a profound truth, a truth I had seen reflected in the lives of some of the finest men I have ever had the honor of knowing, veterans of conflicts from Vietnam to Belgium, from Korea to Afghanistan, ordinary men burnished to high honor by extraordinary sacrifice among a band of brothers in the battle well fought. - Kevin P, in a comment on Pajamas Media
OJ has a new website up declaring his innocence.
The web address is http: forward slash, forward slash, backslash, escape.
- scheisskugel (On a thread discussing O.J.'s revelation that he is the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby.)
Backstory:
Hatred of America unites the world
Being hated is no fun. Few of us are like those pantomime villains who glory in the hisses and boos of an audience. And few people hate being hated more than Americans. I wish I had a dollar for every time I've been asked the plaintive question: "Why do they hate us?" and another for each of the different answers I've heard. It's because of our foreign policy. It's because of their extremism. It's because of our arrogance. It's because of their inferiority complex. Americans really hate not knowing why they're hated.
The best explanation is in fact the simplest. Being hated is what happens to dominant empires. It comes - sometimes literally - with the territory. George Orwell knew the feeling. As a young man he served as an assistant police superintendent in British-run Burma, an experience he memorably described in his essay "Shooting an Elephant". Called upon to kill a rogue pachyderm that had run amok, Orwell was suddenly aware "of the watchful yellow faces behind" him:
Comments (from NoPasaran):
People hate America because they want the romance of the hammer and sickle, or the romance of a martyr.
They can't bear the idea that providence might actually come with a cheeseburger in one hand and a promise of freedom in the other.
How many people have actually bothered to read the Declaration of Independence and see the promise?
How many people prefer the heroic struggle of the proletariat?
The truth is it's not the US that's arrogant, it's the romantics that want a cause that exhault's humanity into some kind of superman, when what is actually being offered is the chance to be ordinary. - David
As I see it, having visited the United States,the great advantage it's citizens possess is the ability to succeed, should they so wish. There is no class culture, consequently those who are successful are admired and indeed encouraged to achieve more. Envy and jealousy simply do not exist. It is something the rest of the world cannot understand and this is manifested by the so called "hatred" expressed against a country which is totally different to the class system which dominates all other nations. - Peter Hughes
I think that Europe is crashing faster than they believe it will. These anti-American sentiments really don't bother me that much - they are too reminiscent of Lord Haw Haw and the pontifications of Pravda. Europe is sinking, and all this blather will do is make it more difficult to respond the next time Europe needs us...as you know they will shortly. Europe is always there for us when they need us, you know.
As an average Joe Sixpack, I find all this anti-American talk overblown and unnecessary. It has nothing to do with Iraq as it's been around since before WWII. Europe should be careful it doesn't get what it wishes for...a disengaged US.
A homeless man charged with trying to rob two elderly women found himself on the losing end of a skirmish with three men in their 70s, Metro police said Tuesday.
Eddie Charles Vanderpool, 41, attempted to rob Jean Wright, 70, and Thelma Wilson, 75, outside Cracker Barrel at 6941 Charlotte Pike Friday evening as they walked to a car in the parking lot, police said.
Wilson’s husband, Donald Wilson, 74, tried to stop Vanderpool, who knocked him to the ground. Herbert Crowson, 77, and Dennis Orman, 72, saw the incident and quickly slammed Vanderpool into a vehicle while Wilson got up and helped hold him until police arrived.
Vanderpool has been charged with 89 criminal offenses over the past 23 years, according to Metro police.
Comment:
I hope they arrested those VIGILANTE RETHUGLICAN SCUM for OPPRESSING A DISADVANTAGED, MARGINALIZED, HOMELESS PERSON! But it's one of those REDNECK SOUTHERN CHRISTIANIST STATES! so they BLAME THE VICTIM OF CHIMPY MCROVEHITLERBURON'S FASCIST POLICE STATE! They should be in PRISON! And no doubt they were PRIVILEGED WHITE PEOPLE! - rightwingprof
Hoot!
I remember a time when England begged the U.S. for any type of firearm for WWII. We sent tons of family firearms there to help in the fight we all knew was coming. I think it is a shame that many of these family firearms were melted down and destroyed. The very items sent to protect and defend your country!
- Theodore, responding to a Telegraph.co.uk article on England's gun ban
It's been said before, but far from being progressive, as they fancy themselves, the left is actually quite regressive. A lot of them still live in the age of heroes (in the original Greek sense).
Our current age, with its parliaments, corporations, and sitcoms, has no more heroes in the old sense, and no heroic movements. And globalization is turning the world into what Hitler condemned Britain as: a nation of shopkeepers.
So the left is counter-enlightenment (romantic and irrational), and are always grabbing for the next great counter-revolution: communist, socialist, multiculturalistic, Islamic, green. As long as the new revolution is opposed to the dominant liberal rationalism, and it's got a compelling, heroic back-story, they'll fall for it.
Likewise they appreciate their heroes on a romantic basis. Lenin, Stalin, Che, Castro, Saddam, and Chavez have all been or are currently adored by the left. You can criticize this from a rational perspective, but it won't do any good, since the appeal is irrational. The hero is invested with the lefts hopes and dreams, and not a little myth.
- Brian O'Connell, commenting on a Tim Blair thread
Seen on an Elvis thread....
I heard Elvis is making a comeback, he's got 6feet to go. - YamYam
Altarities: Definition
What are altarities? It's the new academic neologism for what we like to refer to as "wish-facts," the moonbats' tendency to wish so hard something was true, that it (in their imaginations) becomes true.
A good example of a wish-fact "altarity" is the recent "Beach Impeach" event.
Anyway, this book was about some kind of moonbatty art, most of it political, most of it involving "altarities." Another example I saw of this recently was this book "Martha and George," about the sex affair between Matha Stewart and George Bush. From the moonbat perspective, it would be so deliciously perfect if it was true, so therefore, it is true.
Fake but accurate, in other words. Dan Rather is an expert on "altarities."
Comment on a thread on LGF...a 'peace worker' is going to swim the Amazon by using buckets of blood to distract the critters.
From commenter Olrence on Tim Blair...
Donald Rumsfeld briefed the President this morning.
He told Bush that Three Brazilian soldiers were killed in Iraq .
To everyone’s amazement, all of the color ran from Bush’s face, then he collapsed onto his desk, head in hands, visibly shaken, almost whimpering..
Finally, he composed himself and asked Rumsfeld, “Just exactly how many is a brazillion?”
How is it that so many of our 'best and brightest' are so routinely snookered by the geopolitical equivalent of streetwise hoodlums? Hard to recall, I know, but elites used to be good at besting thugs -- that is, if they wanted to remain elites for very long. - Cosmo on Belmont Club
I liked this comment, and googled it up...and found this:I think it was at Edward VII's funeral in 1909, that the Kaiser remarked to Theodore Roosevelt, that the US had better tread softly with regard to Germany as there were ten million Germans living in the US. Roosevelt's reply: "We have twenty million lamp posts, if necessary". and James Watson Gerard (1867-1951) served as American Ambassador to Germany prior to U.S. involvement in World War One. Gerard gained particular notoriety for a speech given on 25 November 1917 to the Ladies Aid Society of St. Mary’s Hospital in New York. During the course of his speech he feared for the possibility of up to half a million German-Americans rising up and wreaking havoc within the U.S. once General Pershing’s American Expeditionary Force (AEF) took part in its first major offensive against the German enemy. His solution was startlingly simple: to hang German-Americans from lamp posts. Unsurprisingly Gerard was unsuccessful in his bid for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1920.
So. I wonder who said it?
Damn, I've seen the same thing. I take young'uns shooting as much as I can. Students, co-workers, neighbors, and my own when they were younger, there is nothing like taking out a new shooter....of any age. I remember one of my young students, a 19-year-old flame-haired knockout. She had never touched a firearm in her life. With a group of her fellow students I started them on .22 pistols and rifles and worked thru 9mm and Makarov up to full sized .45 1911s. She was amazing. I swear it was like watching robo-cop. With that big .45 in her little hands and a Q target at 15 yards, It was like I could hear gears moving. Two in the chest, move, one in the forehead, move, right shoulder, move, left shoulder, move, right elbow, move, left elbow, move, dead on the nuts. Faster than I can say it and with a big grin all the time. She took her target home and taped it up on her door. My daughter (all 90 lbs of her) is at the "screw the .22, gimmie the .357" stage. She doesn't remember, but at four she had the most fun with the smoke and flame of a black powder old Army .44. As soon as women realize that (1) recoil is doable, (2) noisy is good, and (3) this is true empowerment, their superior hand-eye coordination and natural control and calmness tells them that they can be good at this. Every woman should be trained to shoot as soon as they can lift a weapon. There'd be a lot more busted caps and a lot less busted lips. Besides, even for an old fart like me, there is something really sexy about a woman blasting away with skill and good American iron in her hand.
