We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/some_more_thoug.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:59:47 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification CAPT H pointed us to a post at Small Dead Animals, that discusses a little pre-emptive policing... regarding cars. Well, actually, he pointed us to *this comment* on that post at SDA... It's about time that the government did something about automobiles whose sole purpose is to kill pedestrians. As a physician I see the devastation caused by automobiles on a daily basis from vehicular trauma to deaths from diabetes and MI's which are directly the result of automobiles. Registration was tried with automobiles but it has proved be be an utter failure and prohibition appears to be the only... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/some_more_thoug.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/some_more_thoug.html Sat, 23 Jun 2007 06:31:56 -0600 Indeed, JMH, indeed. Some people's irony-meters need some tuning... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/some_more_thoug.html#comment-61410 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/some_more_thoug.html#comment-61410 Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:19:45 -0600 Sigh!!! The comment was in geste. Because it also easily encompasses the ant-gun argument in Canada. Which is NOT a popular point-of-view at SDA. Cheers http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/some_more_thoug.html#comment-61408 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/some_more_thoug.html#comment-61408 Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:24:00 -0600 That comment does look more like a copypasta-troll: Take a successfull flame-bait [Guns] replace theme with yours [Cars] fiddle the examples and voi-la http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/some_more_thoug.html#comment-61407 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/some_more_thoug.html#comment-61407 Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:53:00 -0600 OMG - that commenter isn't kidding. I thought (hoped) it was a comment in jest. We already have many representatives of that form of smarmy, self-righteous bastid here in the Seattle area - both at the state and county level. They want us out of our cars and in public transportation, and make almost no attempt to hide the attitude at all. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/some_more_thoug.html#comment-61403 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/some_more_thoug.html#comment-61403 Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:41:44 -0600