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Friday, 18 May
05:42
So Obama's administration engages in illegal gunrunning in order to push gun control, border patrol agent Brian Terry is killed as a result, and Obama's DOJ lies, obfuscates, and tries to cover it up.
Now, Congress passes a law honoring Brian Terry and what does Obama do? He signs it privately without a word. This President has no class. None. His policies resulted in Terry's death. Terry's death is a pox on his administration, so rather than honor the fallen he will sweep it under the rug because doing otherwise would be inconvenient for him.
Wow. And people wonder why I have no respect for President Obama. He's a classless, arrogant, narcissistic jerk. His actions and words as President continue to convey that.
...So I woke up this morning and soon realized that local morning news was not going to provide me with blogfodder: as exciting as the weather and the various peripheral events leading up to the Indianapolis 500 are to the local news crew, they just weren't getting my creative juices flowing, so I flipped to CNN.
I gave a little shriek, but then realized it was just Chuck Schumer. He was giving his little speech pimping his Bill of Attainder against Fancisco d'Anc... er, Eduardo Severin. Then they went to a live interviewette with the legislation's co-parent, Senator Bob Casey from Pennsylvania...
Oh. My. God. This was the first time I'd seen him speak, live and quasi-extemporaneously. Will someone explain to me how that stammering cretin convinced 50.1% of the adult voting populace of the Keystone State that he'd make a fine United States Senator*? I wouldn't vote for that idiot to call in the office pizza order for fear he'd &*%$ it up somehow.
In self-defense I jogged the channel clicker again, winding up on HLN, and found myself enveloped in a fluffy pink giggling cocoon as the teleprompter reader that hosts their morning show opened her dazzli...
I have new military sights for the 10/22 from Tech Sights, and a new web sling for the thing, too. Need to pick up some more 10 round magazines, but that should be pretty easy.
#2 Son wants to try out for the JROTC rifle squad next year, and so this will be a good foundation for him. Me, I'd like to shoot "expert" like Dad did in Basic - he was quite proud of that - but he had 20 year old eyes back then and mine are (ahem) a little older. Still, if you don't have a goal, you'll never reach it.
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So, the ne'er do well libtard character dating the Russia pilot in this cartoon has been influenced by her conservative sister (and main character) and is now packing heat for self-defense
In the previous days, her and the boyfriend were toting home improvement supplies by foot because the lumber didn't fit in their car. On foot through a sketchy neighborhood. They are set upon by thug gang-banger types by behind and through slapstick happenstance the lumber provides a comic foil "lookout! What? ~whack!~ Over there! What? ~turn~whack!~ ", and ends with the defensive shooting, winging the armed attacker's... arm.
Now look at that poor situational awareness. Walking around in a known bad nighborhood, ignoring the warnings from a sister, and in Condition White. And that poor shot placement! Sheesh. Let's see where the comic goes with this. Hopefully not TOO much further into the racial stereotype weeds...
Oh wait, they went off the rails with this one ...
Here is a review of the Army's newest battle rifle.
I think it has promise. Too bad supply considerations obviated the 6.5mm round, but... Whatcha gonna do. According to the article only about 7500 have been delivered so far, but they seem to be well received, performing well in all conditions. Gonna take a while to fully equip the troops. Years. And after that, "it will probably be many years before any of these rifles will become available for other purposes."
I'd hunt with one.
It's a fact of modern life that everyone who has a cell phone has a video camera. It's also a fact of life that when you're out in public, you're apt to be recorded. I know when I'm at work on my beat, there are about 14 different cameras that are running all the time. And all the students have cameras, most especially those kids in the videography class.
So, when I see the police complain about being recorded, I wonder what they're thinking. Of course you're going to be recorded. Some states have passed ordinances against recording the police and I think that's a very bad idea, from a number of perspectives. First, we're public servants. Everything we do should stand legal scrutiny. We work for the people and they have a right to make sure that their servants are doing a good job, doing it properly, and preserving their rights.
Some agencies seize recordings when the public is recording the police and I can appreciate the need to preserve evidence. I routinely seize video of crimes being committed, capture it for its evidentiary value. I certainly don't seize cameras and I give everyone a receipt for...
SO, if you've been reading the news, you'll know about this 1991 Harvard Law Review pamphlet that's recently been uncovered.
No one on the left is saying this thing is fake, but that it is simply a fact-checking error. I'm no birther, and I believe that the man was probably born in Hawaii, but stories like these don't help his credibility. The man seems to re-invent himself to match whatever the circumstance, and whatever will put him in the most attractive light. In short, he's a liar. He can't even stick with one story about where he was born, where he was raised. A fact-checking error? Where did the edi...
Boehner asks Obama, pretty please, to get Holder off the dime. As if that's going to work.
LATER: Another, more detailed, account.
Meanwhile, the GOP does nothing except fund raise using the issue and makes the Dems points for them.
LATER: Boehner continues to hide.
A report from WWLP TV in Massachusetts on the states AWB contains a lot of interviews and (except for one cop) basically all are in agreement that it doesn't work or prevent anything. Story here.
On Wednesday, April 25, WCPN/WVIZ-PBS took up the debate concerning self-defense laws on a panel show called The Sound of Ideas.
Included in the discussion were Kevin C. McMunigle, law professor, Case Western Reserve University; Lori O'Neill, O'Neill Marketing Strategies, Inc., firearms law consultant; Linda Walker, Central Ohio chair, Buckeye Firearms Association; and Mary Ann Kovach, chief legal counsel, Summit Co. Prosecutor's office.
Click here to view the video, or download an MP3 podcast.
The Big Guy sends in another addition, this time out of a place I've visited recently...
Home Invasion Suspect Shot Dead
One of the intruders succumbed to his injuries, sadly the other survived. There's not a lot to go on for this one - the entire story is barely longer than the excerpted passage - but the facts are they broke into a home to commit a crime and were thwarted by an armed homeowner. Chalk one up for the good guys, unless and until we hear otherwise.ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - St. Louis police are calling it a case of justifiable homicide. Two men broke into a home in north city Wednesday afternoon and began robbing several people inside.One of the occupants of the home in the 4700 block of Labadie shot at the suspects, hitting one and possibly the other before the intruders ran off.
Dead Goblin Count: 292
That is all.
You know, I realized something. When I put up my "Honey I Shrunk the Sig" post, I neglected to post a shot of the P250 in sub-compact guise all on its own (compact size here). Sure, it's shown in comparison to the compact grip frame and slide (and done up as a mock 245), but I neglected to show it as a subcompact .45 ACP. Allow me to remedy that:
As I mentioned in the post about the X-Change conversion kit, the sub-compact size is slightly smaller than the compact Glock 30. It still allows for a full two fingers on the grip, with the pinky slightly overhanging the bottom of the grip. It will also eat out of the compact and full size magazines, so you can back up the 6+1 rounds with 10 rounds f...
Looks like the cause of death was a direct hit from a 9mm JHP to the heart. From all sounds the JHP performed well in terminal ballistics.
The alleged abrasions on Martin’s fists are not well documented. The only evidence I read was a circle with “Abrasions” on the left knuckles in the pictogram. Maybe I missed something?
Toxicology reports low levels of THC. We KNEW this was going to show up no matter what, as Martin was suspended for drug possession at school a week earlier, and it was for an empty baggie and a pipe. We can do the math. Given that THC is a fat-soluble substance it takes a long time to clear exposure from your system (ie: you can smoke crack, or bang heroin on Saturday Night and so long as you keep hydrated, piss clean on Monday morning at work…but you spend an evening in a hash bar in Amsterdam on day one of a week vacation, you still might test positive for marijuana when you get home) and the levels aren’t high. Unless they missed something, evidence indicates he was probably sober a...
She Tweeted it Yesterday, and then doubled-down with a blog post. Lately Joan’s blog posts have been nothing short of an embarrassment. They’re disjointed, mostly quotes from other anti-rights shills, and really don’t follow any one train of thought. This one is a little more coherent, so I’ll reward her with a post!
Raise your hand if you think it’s a great idea for these Michigan militia members to get their arsenal of weapons back after serving time in jail. Really, where is common sense? I submit to my readers that when something like this can happen, there is something seriously wrong with our system. Yes, these 3 folks were acquitted while other members of their group were not. But really, what were they planning with all of these guns? Did they really have what was claimed to be a gun collection? Does one also collect ammunition just for fun if one is not planning to use it someday?
What an idiot! But it gets better with this!
...Not only do anti-rights people talk about “Gun Death” as a danger to the general populace, but also against Police Officers.
A man accused of shoving a city police officer off a stoop to his death during a domestic violence arrest last year was convicted Wednesday of manslaughter….Police Officer Alain Schaberger was responding to a domestic violence call made by Villanueva’s girlfriend, who claimed Villanueva had threatened to kill her, on March 13, 2011.
Officers tracked him to another apartment and stood with him outside on the stoop. While Schaberger was trying to handcuff Villanueva, he shoved the officer over a railing, prosecutors said. Schaberger fell nine feet, breaking his neck.
Bet he wasn’t threatening his old lady with a gun either! But like the majority of police officers who die in auto accidents, those who fall to their death, or are beaten or stabbed to death aren’t relevant to the debate. Only the “Gun Deaths” count.
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One theory says that every black hole contains a new universe.
"Not in our backyard," as the saying goes. From Fox News: The winds blowing through Canada's broad St. Lawrence Valley and across Vermont's hilltops are stirring up an international tempest over which country's laws should govern how those breezes are harnessed for electricity. Some residents of the Quebec town of Stanstead ...
From Tulsa World: Gov. Mary Fallin on Tuesday signed a measure allowing for guns to be carried openly. The new law takes effect November 1st and you still need a CCW permit before you can do so.
If you're going to steal a valuable antique gun, don't then try to sell it on national TV. From the Denver Post: A 64-year-old Erie man who tried to sell an antique pistol on the Discovery Channel TV show "American Guns" in December is accused of stealing the $20,000 revolver ...
From the NRA: Senate Bill 2573, sponsored by state Senators Harold Metts (D-6), Rhoda Perry (D-3), Juan Pichardo (D-2), Paul Jabour (D-5) and Elizabeth Crowley (D-16), is a dramatic departure from current law and completely overturns state pre-emption of firearms. This bill would allow anti-gun localities to impose whatever gun ...
The Obama campaign has released yet another ad that has already been debunked. Even by one of their MSM boosters. From the Daily Caller's Matt Lewis: The Obama campaign is out with a new two-minute attack ad, hitting Mitt Romney on his past at Bain Capital. The ad, set to ...
Thursday, 17 May
22:42
First giflib release since I reassumed the lead. Short version: lots of useless old cruft thrown out, everything Coverity-scanned, one minor resource leak found and fixed.
As I’ve previously noted, this code was in astonishingly good shape considering its great age. I vigorously beat the dust out of it with Coverity and cppcheck, but found only one very minor bug that way – a malloc leak following a malloc failure in the code that makes color-table structures. I think it is rather likely this case has never actually been triggered.
I retired six utilities, added a bunch of documentation and made it HTML-able, fixed a minor bug in how output GIF versions are computed in an upward-compatible way, and fixed a thread-safety problem. I added a rudimentary regression-test suite; this could use some more work. All tracker bugs have been resolved and closed.
Next release, 5.0, will make one very minor change in the API near extension blocks.
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Are the residents of Columbus, Ohio infused with the lofty glow of intelligence? Not this guy, who decided to shoot it out with police after being chased into his house.
So what happened? It didn’t go well for our erstwhile Deadeye Dick. His aim was terrible, while the three John Law types standing out front made better practice.
I particularly liked what happened after he was wounded, and the cops stormed the house to bring him outside.
There is less mess if he bleeds on the lawn while waiting for the paramedics, instead of inside. Is blood a good fertilizer for grassy turf?
Sorry about the lack of blogging, but I've been on the road a bit lately. It is about 7am right now, Holland time, and I and in my hotel room in Winterswijk, Holland. I'm over here for the European Steel Challenge Championships, which start today (Friday) at 8:45 am and I'm in the first flight, so at 8:45 I will be shooting my Tanfoglio 9mm. Gold Custom in Open division. My score today will be recorded both in the individual category, but it will also be combined with the scores of two other shooters and entered in the team category. It was quite an honor to be invited to join a team with two other Dutch shooters, both very good, for the match. They pick a name of the team when they enter, and our Open Division is Team Mr. Completely! Another honor, for sure! I will be shooting Rimfire Optic class tomorrow morning, and again I will be on a team, this time on Team Dragonball, the rimfire team I have been on the last two years. Last year Team Dragonball was fourth, and the year before we were third.
Getting here to Winterswijk was an adventure in itself. It took a bus and ferry ride from Whidbey Island to SeaTac airport followed by a ten hour flight in a very cramped seat ...
Italian university switches to EnglishAnd this bit is even more interesting:
From opera at La Scala to football at the San Siro stadium, from the catwalks of fashion week to the soaring architecture of the cathedral, Milan is crowded with Italian icons.Which makes it even more of a cultural earthquake that one of Italy's leading universities - the Politecnico di Milano - is going to switch to the English language.The university has announced that from 2014 most of its degree courses - including all its graduate courses - will be taught and assessed entirely in English rather than Italian.The waters of globalisation are rising around higher education - and the university believes that if it remains Italian-speaking it risks isolation and will be unable to compete as an international institution.
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Via Rachel Lucas. I'm not a huge fan of classical music, but I've been exposed to it. My wife is the one with eclectic musical tastes, running from Mozart to Nine Inch Nails.
Here's a performance of the last movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the Ode to Joy by the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra and a chorus of ten thousand people, Yutaka Sado, conducting, at a concert in memory of those lost in the tsunami last year.
The chorus at 7:00 in raised goosebumps on my arms.
Just...wow.
From time to time, folks ask me for an up-to-date listof my books. Here is the latest. See my books in print at Phoenix Pick (through Amazon.com and B&N.com), BigHeadPress.com, JPFO.org, Baen Books, and Mountain Media. Many are also available in e-book formats such as Kindle and Nook. ...
Dear Readers and Friends, I regret that I haven't sent out an update like this since February. I've been too busy actually writing the stuff: two novels, parts of a screenplay, and at least an article a week for _L. Neil Smith's THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE_. There will be those, of ...
Dear Mr. Limbaugh, I began listening to you early in the Clinton Administration. For years you've said you're playing with half your brain tied behind your back "just to make it fair". For the same number of years, I've been saying (admittedly to a much smaller audience), ...
An acquaintance of mine sent me, among others, an appeal to help him keep the powers that be within the Libertarian Party from cutting the national platform into even tinier shreds than it's in now. I grew sick to death a long time ago of ...
My lovely and talented wife Cathy, as you may know, is an undergraduate in the archaeology program at Colorado State University, but it's a very small department and she's being treated more like a grad student, which in this case is a good thing. She's taken on a project to catalog ...
Tom, I'm very sorry I didn't get back to you before this. I am neither a Jell-O shooter nor a statistician, although I believe that both have their place in discussions of stopping power. Just not first place. A very _small_ place. I believe in physics. My "Efficacy" formula combines energy, the ...
You know who you are. A friend of mine just wrote to me that Judge Andrew Napolitano's show on the Fox News Network has been canceled without any explanation (from Fox News) that makes sense. I wrote back to him offering a relatively simple plan, if not to get the program back, ...
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A little photoshop I whipped up for the Croatian bullpup rifle:
As the wikipedia page says, it definitely does look similar to the FAMAS.
Thoughts? Anyone ever shot this thing?
Another commercial from Glock:
Everyone knows I love glock, but it’s become obvious that the Glock marketing department recently bought a digital SLR and learned about Adobe After Effects… or were sold the idea by a external marketing firm. Both commercials so far were quite pointless. (the first one is HERE if you want to check it out)
I don’t really get this whole “Confidence To Life Your Life” campaign either. Is that implying that anyone without a Glock is likely a scared little bee0tch? If so, i’m sure those sound like fightin’...
To Live And Die In L.A.
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck holds up a rocket launcher turned in during a weekend gun-buyback program in the city. The haul also included 791 handguns, 527 rifles and 302 shotguns — less than what usually is turned in. A supermarket chain donated $200,000 in gift cards to be given out in exchange for the weapons.
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Oh.. wait… TRAINER. *facepalm* Stellar police work Charlie. How embarrassing. Is that an inert AT4?
They always flaunt those haul numbers like it’s some massive victory, but I wonder how many of the bought back guns were actually airsoft or 40 year old throwaway guns that don’t even work....
I think it’s come strongly into evidence by now that George Zimmerman was a man out for his neighborhood. This is an admirable instinct, but it’s obviously one that that has lead him to the ruin of his life. This begs a very serious question, for those who go about with firearms strapped to their persons. What duty do you owe to those around you?
I am drawn to the idea of a neighborhood banding together, to do what they can to fight crime, and the tyranny of the criminal element. That is a good and healthy thing. But banding together is a key element; you agree to watch each other’s backs, and come to the aid of the other when things in the neighborhood start to get real. You and all your neighbors should very much understand what this means.
This is an impossible standard in most communities, and to a large degree, we should feel fortunate for that fact, because most communities in the United States are so unbelievably safe by the standard of human history, that we just don’t practically think much about such matters. Regardless of ideals, crime in Suburban America is low enough that people feel it can justifiably be a matter left to profes...
Since I have recently gone to shore duty here in beautiful San Diego I have found myself with more time than I know what to do with. Going from 9/10ths of the year underwater and the majority of the remaining time spent getting the boat ready to go out again, and then coming to a sweet 9-5 job with no duty days will make you feel pretty useless. I promised myself a long time ago that I would start shooting my guns competitively in one way or another. With this in mind, I made my first gun purchase of the year. I bought my first Glock, a model 19. I used to hate Glocks, I was right up there bashing these pieces of combat tupperware with the best of them. That was, until I watched this video. It made me respect the Glock and think about it in a way that I never had before. Plain and simple, they work. All the time, every time, they will work even with the holy hell beaten out of them. It is impressive. That video made me a believer and I got one. I don’t think it’s pretty, it has no soul. They are attractive to me, however, because they continue to function no matter what. I think that’s enoug...
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If Mr Obama had sons, would they look like these guys?
I had grown up reading about Ray Chapman, the man the late, great Jeff Cooper called “the maestro” of practical handgun shooting, and got to meet him in Los Angeles in 1978 during a practice session for the National Championships of IPSC, the International Practical Shooting Confederation. I was running a particularly difficult stage, and since he was watching I asked, “Mr. Chapman, could you give me any pointers?” He replied that I should start the stage with my toes pointed in a slightly different direction, and should slap the barricade (the second firing point of the stage) with my support hand when I reached it.
I remember thinking “Wow, big deal…the World Champion’s only advice is move my toes and slap some wood.” But I tried it…and cut a significant few seconds off my time on the next run. The slight change in foot angle had saved me a turn as I started the run, and the slap on the wall brought me to a stop and into firing position on the barricade much more quickly. Ray Chapman had just given me my first preview of his extraordinary coaching ability.
I got to his Chapman Academy advanced pistol school in Columbia (actually adjacent Hallsville), Missouri...
A week or so back, there was a post over at Ace Of Spades about the new P-40 that was discovered in the North African desert, and how this had happened before with the B-24 "Lady Be Good". That bomber - and the remains of its crew - were discovered by an oil exploration team in the 1950s. A TV Movie, Sole Survivor was made in the late 1960s, staring (among others), William Shatner.
I remember watching it when it aired. I was 12 at the time, and it fascinated me and creeped me out at the same time. It was very Twilight Zone. This is how they made military dramas back when only two decades had passed from when every family had someone in uniform. Hollywood couldn't conceive anything like this today.
Well, someone has uploaded it to Youtube. Recommended, more than I can say.
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Midsouth has a sale on blemished bullets.
Awright, who's been playing with their chemistry set?
Not long after I got my current bike, I decided to get this air filter for it; cost a little more than the factory, but even getting the cleaning kit wasn't much more. And this one you can clean and use again; pays for itself real quick. Which is part of what I did today, along with cleaning, lubing and adjusting the chain.
Such interesting thought processes at CSGV...
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Ed asks the question in this digest post.
It certainly looked like Obama fudged his biography a bit to make himself seem a bit more exotic when it suited his needs. And then later on evolved his back when the false position was no longer needed.
Welp, wouldn't be the first time a Liberal claimed extra, and undeserved, minority status.
I'm wondering if there'll be a cute name for people that still believe that Elizabeth Warren is really a Cherokee.... other than Mrs. Warren...
And again... it's rather pathetic and sad. But it is rather funny.
So Staffers on the Obama Administration can't admit that they added paragraphs about Obama to the biographies of the last 15 presidents (excluding Ford for some reason).
For you see... "No biographies have been altered. We simply added links at the bottom of each page to related whitehouse.gov content, which is a commonly used best practice to encourage people to browse more pages on a site."
They just added some links. The paragraph about Obama appeneded to every post Coolidge Biography (save Ford's) well that was done by someone else.
Who you may ask? Well. Not them. Possibly by gnomes, or maybe it was done by the outgoing Bush administration that was feeling generous... and had time travel.
This is both creepy, sad, and pathetic.
The full version of the article I wrote about the 29th Western Trail Classic Archery Competition is now up on WON! Check it out here:
http://www.womensoutdoornews.com/2012/05/millsecond-molly-where-molly-learns-about-that-other-fast-shooting-sport-archery/
New definition of old: step smartly out to the mailbox, bring it in, and it contains an ad, adressed personally to me, from the Scooter Store! Whichever of you wags sent my name to that outfit, I'm gonna git you, sucka!
Buy-A-Gun Day* was a month ago, but I did not participate, due to laziness, procrastination, and an inability to find what I wanted. A couple of weeks later I went to the local gun show and struck out again. Earlier this week a co-worker tipped me off about Cabela's Memorial Day Sale--started today--so yesterday I did two days of chores in one day, and today I made my way down to Lacey...
...and for once I was able to approach the gun counter without elbowing my way through a mob. And pulled the ticket and was the next customer. When they asked what I was looking for, I told them "10/22 Take-down" and was told "I'll go see if we have any." "There's one right behind you." "What?! Where did that come from?!" Other counter guy: "Oh, we got 15 or so in while you were at lunch."
Crummy cell phone pics, for now.
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Wow.
NEENAH — A Neenah man is the new owner of a Green Bay Packers Super Bowl XLV ring.
Dennis Brucks, 71, purchased the rare piece of jewelry Wednesday for an undisclosed amount at Pawn America in Grand Chute.
“I sat on the 50-yard-line during the Ice Bowl and sat there for the whole game,” Brucks said. “And I do enjoy the Packers; it’s good for our community. When you want something relating to the Packers, how can you get any better than this?”
Pawn America manager LeRon Wilder confirmed the ring was sold between 1 and 2 p.m. Wednesday, but could not provide further details due to client confidentiality.
The Super Bowl XLV ring caused quite a stir in the Fox Valley earlier this week with fans stopping by Pawn America for a look at the female ring with the name “Pace” on the side. Certification paperwork confirmed Sarah Pace, who works in the Packers front office as “Atrium Operations Lead,” as the seller.
The U.S. Commerce Department on Thursday assessed penalties against solar panels imported from China, the latest move in a sun power trade dispute.
The decision was viewed as a victory by solar panel manufacturers, including Helios USA in Milwaukee, but was criticized by a coalition of installers and inverter manufacturers who said it would drive up the price of solar panels for consumers.
The finding follows up on a similar move in March in unfair trade practices complaints filed by domestic solar panel manufacturers like Helios. They charged the Chinese were unfairly dumping panels in the U.S. at prices below the cost of production.
Helios makes panels that are more efficient than typical solar panels because they can generate more power using the same amount of space. The firm was expanding last year, until a flood of imported panels in the market prompted it to cancel one of its production shifts.
Tariffs proposed Thursday range from 31% for several key panel makers, inc...
MONROE - Teachers in the Monroe School District will have new health and dental insurance carriers starting in the 2012-13 school year.
The Monroe school board approved Unity Insurance point of service and Delta Dental plans Monday night.
Monroe Business Manager Ron Olson said the Unity plan will save the district a little more than $800,000 in premiums compared to the current Wisconsin Education Association Insurance Trust. The total costs to maintain the WEA plan would be 18.3 percent. The district was targeting a 5-percent increase; Olson said the deal with Unity is a 3.2 percent increase.
Olson said the savings will help the board meet and exceed its current budgeted objective.
The Unity POS plan is associated with the UW Health Care System, but Monroe Clinic, Mercy System and Beloit Hospital System would also be included as providers.
The Delta Dental plan also includes a vision coverage that employees can pick up. Olson said the Delta Dental plan is a 5.8 percent reduction in dental ins...
Following up from my previous post on Marissa Alexander, where I spoke about credibility when you’re making a self-defense claim, we have yet another example of that. Turns out that Trayvon Martin had marijuana in his system when he was shot by George Zimmerman. Generally speaking, pot tends to render most people dangerous only if you’re a bag of Cheetos, but in some people it can drive feelings of paranoia. The family is outraged:
That revelation drew a furious response from Martin’s family.
“The only comment that I have right now is that they’ve killed my son and now they’re trying to kill his reputation,” Martin’s mom, Sybrina Fulton, said at the time.
I believe we ought to be sympathetic to a mother who has lost...
Finally closed on my refinance early this evening. It’s good to finally have that out of the way, pay a lower monthly payment, and pay less interest to a bank overall. Banks have gotten much more careful with mortgages since the financial crisis, as I had to provide quite a bit more documentation than I did for my original mortgage. With that out of the way, I can focus on more pressing difficulties with the house, like this:
What neither my contractor nor I can believe was that it was only during Hurricane Irene that we noticed water coming through the ceiling. I had to wait until I found a job before I could think about getting someone out again, and we never again saw water. A few weeks before our contractor started, I noticed the drywall drooping down a bit in a spot. I used the very sophisticated technique of...
Robb asks the following question:
What is the most fun firearm you own and why? Which boomstick puts a smile on your face every time you take it to the range? If you have another gunnie coming over, which piece from your armory to you ensure you pack in the bag to show off?
You know, I have a lot of fun toys. All of them put a smile on my face in one way or another. However there is only one I refer to as my baby. There is only one that I lovingly look after like a protective father. Others do experience the bliss that is my baby, but for them it is no where near what I feel settling in behind that stock.
The Very Beginning
Let me tell the story from the beginning. You see, when I was about three and a half years old my dad took me to the range with him. I do not have the luxury of actually remembering this experience. However my...
A lot of people have been making a lot of noise about how Our Glorious President, Barack Hussein Obama, has failed to accomplish much of anything in his first term as President of the United States of America. I am going to buck the libertarian/independent trend here for a moment, and actually defend President Obama – he has accomplished all kinds of things.
• First President to Preside Over a Cut to the Credit Rating of the United States Government
• First President to Violate the War Powers Act
• First President to Orchestrate the Sale of Murder Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels
• First President to issue ...
Lots of Documents and photos released from the Zimmerman Martin case.
The documents are a little small for my eyes, but the photos strike me as nothing but consistent with Zimmerman’s side of the story. His face is busted up…his hands are uninjured, and there is one spent shell.
There’s the eyewitness report that also corroborates the story.
Really the only real surprise was there WAS a can of tea! Not sure if it was bought from a Seven-Eleven like alleged, or simply brought from home, but honestly I had assumed the tea and candy was a myth invented by Trayvon’s family, along with the idea that this troubled youth was a “Model Student”.
Of course there is nothing here that shows who started the fight….but so far that would have to be the ONLY lie Zimmerman told. Occam’s Razor and all.
The racists won’t ...
Roadkill linked this post of pranks.
LOT of fun there…if you don’t want people to like you.
Should have lifted weights today, but I’m still running a little slow from yesterday’s fever, and the weather was PERFECT so I went for a walk around the lake. Brought the good camera along hoping I could get shots of the baby geese, but it appears the town already gathered them up. Pretty fast work given that I first saw them on Monday.
Still I got some pix.
Would have walked right by this guy until he started calling.
There were a lot of racket-makers.
This Killdeer was doing his full display.
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Why is supporting the Bill of Rights a good thing?
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In answer to Carson's question, "Justbecause".—Joe]
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When the Ruger 10/22 Target model came home with me from The Collectors Gunshop, the idea was the rifle would be my ticket to Appleseed nirvana. After all it has a target bull barrel, a great trigger, a super stiff laminated stock perfect for sling use, and is already set up to mount an optical sight... something my aging eyes require.The day it came home, an Eotech found it's way onto the
I'm not thrilled at how stuff is leaking out, but better than leaving Zimmerman twisting in the wind. From May 17, 2012 ABC News:
The autopsy report shows traces of the drug THC, which is found in marijuana, in Martin's blood and urine.
The autopsy also shows that Zimmerman shot Martin from a distance of between 1 inch and 18 inches away, bolstering Zimmerman's claim that he shot Martin during a struggle that landed Zimmerman on his back, Martin straddling him and banging Zimmerman's head on the ground.You will recall that Zimmerman had said on the 911 tapes that Martin was acting in a way that suggested that he was on drugs. It doesn't say how much THC, and I know that it can persist for a long time. But Zimmerman's claims about what happened are getting increasingly corroborated.
Sponsored by Judge Andrew Napolitano, this match challenges you to be the first to down a surveillance drone. The drone must be within U.S. territory when shot. Photograph the crash site and e-mail or fax thew photo to Judge Napolitano Deadline is Dec 31, 2012.
Be sure to follow the rules...
The TAP GAMMA+ ballistic plates have been extremely popular over the last several months thanks to their lightweight, performance, and their extremely reasonable price. I posted about them in one of the most popular posts ever on JTT – High Value Armor Set Up. Unfortunately, there was only a limited supply of these plates and [...]
A simple stop along a country road, on the way to an assignment. It's the country, there's trees, sunshine, birds chirping. It's safe to stop, there, a female all alone, out along an isolated road, far from home. Right? Fortunately I was armed, for I stumbled across a bobcat, lying in wait along the path. You all be careful out there. :-) :-)
Wrapped principal filming on GUN STORIES at noon today and am headed home! I liked the season finale of CRIMINAL MINDS, which we all watched In the hotel bar, as well.If I'm a Good Puppy tomorrow and run the Dillon, I 'll shoot a cowboy match at Pawnee Station on Saturday. If I am a sad, lame little pup, I'll sleep in.
Tomorrow I'm doing something I haven't done in nine years. Taking a day off that has nothing to do with hospitals or illness. I'm going to watch my son graduate from the POST academy in Baton Rouge. I've been there for every other graduation; High school and when he got his BS degree. I'll be there tomorrow for his induction into law enforcement.
He's a Probation and Parole Officer, the same job from which I retired in 2000 and I'm sure that I'll see faces I remember, those guys who stayed in the field and are running the show nowadays. His boss is a guy I helped to train and with whom I've kicked a few doors.
He and his wife, after graduation, are going to slip down to New Orleans to celebrate their anniversary, so we'll bring the grandson home from graduation and he'll spend the weekend with us.
I've got to be suitably attired for graduation and for such an event, it's incumbent on me to carefully choose my accessories. I'm thinking slacks a...
First we need to change that thing in the constitution where he gets to be prez if the current chairwarmer dies, because ... well, damn. But after attending to that little detail, I say Joe Biden as Vice President-For-Life. The only thing they're of any use at is comic relief and there hasn't been a good one since Agnew. If we just get rid of that scary "first in line of succession" thing, Joe Biden is the all-time gold standard in vice presidents.
Biden Calls Himself 'Middle Class Joe'
I get tired of being called a "middle-class joe," like that's somehow I'm just good old Joe and I don't dream.There is no known documentary evidence that anyone besides Joe Biden has ever referred to Joe Biden as "Middle Class Joe." He was called "Senator Biden" for 36 years before becoming VP. With the exception of three post-college years, according to Wikipedia, he has never held an actual job in his adult life. If he ever had an adult life, for which there is little hard evidence. He's very far from the richest senator, which after six terms i...
I wish that Wisconsin would stop buying up land to “preserve” it. It’s expensive, removes massive amounts of land from the tax rolls, prevents development (that’s the point), and is just generally a huge waste of money for a useless objective.
MADISON — The Department of Natural Resources says its agreement to buy 100 square miles of forest in northern Wisconsin would be the state’s largest land conservation purchase.
The DNR has a tentative agreement to spend about $17 million on land in four counties owned by Lyme Timber Co. of Hanover, N.H. The purchase protects the property from future development. The approximate 67,000 acres are located primarily in Douglas and Washburn counties, with smaller parcels in Bayfield and Burnett counties.
How often do you have a deaf friend you need to tell this to? NOW YOU CAN!
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The guitar lessons are coming along fine. I’m in the chords section and most of those I already know from the old days. The fingerings shown for some of them are different than I’m used to, so I’m using those instead of the ones I know mostly so that I don’t fall into familiar habits. I’m pretty good on all first position notes and my time from seeing the note to playing it continues to decrease. I’m not quite able to read forward, but I’m getting there.
However (and this is where you, my dear readers come into play), I’m practicing on my unplugged electric. My amp doesn’t have a headphone jack and I don’t want to punish the neighborhood with me trying to play Minuet in Key Of H. What I’m wanting is a decent, foot pedal based effects system with the primary concern of having a headphone jack (1/4” is fine). Of course, I’d want Chorus, flange, multiple distortions, delay, etc.
What do you guys or gals use? I miss my Digitech GSP2101, but I don’t really want to go rack mount yet. Doesn’t have to be top of the line, but I don’t want crap either, something that can last me a few years until I am ready to move into the spotligh...
But then, I don't speak the Queen's English.
Back in 1991, a literary agent was trying to find a publisher for Obama's first book, Journeys in Black and White, which never quite happened. The bio that Obama's literary agent included in his attempt to sell the book describes Obama this way:
Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.You can see the image of the blurb over at Breitbart.com--which has never bought into the birther stuff, and has you might expect, finds this rather shocking. It's possible that the literary agent was just trying to make Obama a bit more exotic to sell a book. But isn't it interesting that this inaccurate statement matches up with all the crazy birther claims?
UPDATE: While I think World Net Daily should always be taken a a bag of salt (not a grain), they have gathered up a number of items that refer to Obama as born in Kenya: ...
TEHRAN -- Iran on Thursday threatened legal action against Google after becoming angered by the US internet giant's choice of names on its mapping software.
The name of the patch of water between Iran and the Arabian peninsula is a contentious issue, with Shiite Iran insisting it is the "Persian Gulf."
Sunni Muslim Arab states across the water call it the "Arabian Gulf," or just the "Gulf," and Google opts to keep it nameless on its maps....
the major-media weenies can't shut down questions the way they used to.
Not just Reverend Wright, but this stunning new revelation that a close friend of Obama's -- and Michelle's benefactor in Chicago -- offered Wright $150,000 to remain silent in 2008.
Obviously this is newsworthy and relevant.
Which you can guess from the coordinated freak-out.
A Super-Pac is proposing a $10 million ad campaign highlighting the relationship between Obama and Wright.
So All The President's Men are trying to pressure Romney to disown the attack and stop it.
During the last Presidential election, KTOK had an interview one morning with the heads of the state Stupid Party and Evil Party. The...
a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.
The Miller points out this video:
Ummm… One little problem though – the robot uprising already happened. We won. You know that iPhone that you pay so much attention to? You know that computer that if it stops working, you can’t work anymore? You know the machine that if it quits, Grandma dies? Yeah. You are our slaves now. You just didn’t notice it happen. Because we’re that good.
With Bianchi Cup next week, here’s a video we shot last year for Power Factor Show that should hopefully answer all your questions about the Cup.
Robb has a short review of the Rail Master laser up on his blog. We have a Rail Master here in the office at Gun Nuts as well, which will likely get hooked up to the Next Generation Carry gun as part of the Red Dot Rundown.
Or maybe we’ll put it on a rifle. Either way, it’s going to get abused pretty hard. Which brings me to actual point of this post, which is Crimson Trace’s next generation products: the Rail Master, the new Lightguards, the Gen 4 Glock grips, etc. At NRA Annual Meetings they had several trial versions ...
If you’re one of the three people left in the country that hasn’t yet seen the Avengers, there will likely be spoilers in this post. However, as we’ve done in the past for Act of Valor, Cowboys and Aliens, Captain America, and X-Men: First Class I’ll review the movie through the lens of my personal fandom and more importantly take a look at the firearms used, some of the idiosyncrasies of their use, and address some of the complaints I’ve heard about that.
I have to start by saying that I’m a big fan of the source material that a lot of the Marvel Movie universe has been drawn from, primarily Marvel’s Ultimate universe. The Ultimates, or Ultimate Avengers depending on how pedantic you want to be is still one of the best se...
This past weekend we attended the Rusk County (WI) Honor the Fallen motorcycle ride. Manda's mom is heavily involved with organizing, so despite not having bikes (not those kind anyway...) we still try to go help out when we can. The rides started as a fundraiser to build up a scholarship fund in memory of SSG Nathan Vacho. The rides also are in honor of two other Rusk County natives, SSG
It was late at night. There were only three people in sight.
Two guys cut across the street towards the fellow walking his dog. There was something about their body language that set off alarm bells.
“Got any spare change?” they asked.
“No, I spent it all on this gun!” was the reply.
Seemed to work, as the two panhandlers turned on their heels and went the other way.
Could the innocent dog walke...
One of the most important aspects of firearm ownership is properly passing on this heritage and mantle of freedom to the next generation. Of course, the first and most important step is to properly instruct your own children. Imagine yourself in the following situation: armed home invaders are inside your residence and you have retreated [...]
I’ve never seen this blog before, but somebody sent me a link. That there is a fine rant about dumb female stuff from a female’s perspective.
http://krissyaguilar.blogspot.com/2012/05/im-femaleand-i-still-dont-understand.html
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So, in the run-up to Facespace's IPO, one of the zillionaires--who, if the reports I saw are correct, was not born here, and does not reside here--renounced his US citizenship. Thus, by becoming a non-citizen, as a permanent resident of Singapore, he gets to not pay his "fair share" of capital gains tax on the money he stands to make from social media.
Ergo, and right on cue: Senators to Unveil the ‘Ex-Patriot Act’ to Respond to Facebook’s Saverin’s Tax ‘Scheme’ - ABC News
Chuckles Schumer is one of the pair, natch.
Hayek on a crutch, people, as Professor Reynolds keeps saying, Atlas Shrugged was a warning, not a How-To Manual!
Coming soon, to a History Channel near you, "Ayn Rand, Prophet of Doom!"
'Cuz she's sounding more and more like a really really verbose Nostradamus every day...
h/t Tamara.
But without specifics detailing how funds raised under the auspices of holding Eric Holder legally accountable and obtaining justice for the Terry family are to be earmarked, it would be reasonable to assume all moneys raised will go toward general organizational expenses and goals (and of course, consultant fees). [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes how those who have done the least are trying to elbow their way in to get the most--and actually messing things up their single-minded focus on the cash. Besides which, using Brian Terry and his family as a fundraising hook without a note affirming express family endorsement just strikes me as pretty damn insensitive and borderline ghoulish.
[T]he Republican-led House picked up on the NRA’s charges and launched an aggressive investigation. [More]Really, Ken Klukowski?
You know that for a fact?
Did they show you where they parked?
This much? [Read]
Reports have been circulating regarding S. 1813--a highway bill recently passed by the U.S. Senate. The story goes that this bill would allow the IRS to seize your passport and your guns if you owe more than $50,000 in back taxes. The claims are totally bogus.
Although the bill is certainly long and complex, those who suggest that the bill is anti-gun are totally misreading it.
The only firearms-related language in this bill is part of a lengthy provision on hazardous material transportation. The language (see bottom of page 1320) makes clear that the personal transportation of firearms and ammunition isn't regulated or prohibited by the federal hazardous material transportation laws, and commercial transportation isn't prohibited by those laws. This is a pro-gun, rather than anti-gun, provision.
Some reports claim the bill would allow the government to revoke gun permits. However, the "permits" referred to (on page 1323 of the bill) are "special permits" related to hazardous material transportation, and have nothing to do with firearms. Th...
My fellow inmate MA resident Weerdbeard has an excellent read for the day:
Anti-Freedom, NOT Anti-Gun
He talks about the Zimmerman case and how the media has lost interest as more and more facts come to light that support Zimmerman's side of the events leading up to the shooting. He then proceeds to take the anti-gun side out to the woodshed for being, well, evil - they are actively working towards disarming all law-abiding people, yet actively support criminals. Then again, what would you expect from a group that laments a vicious criminal getting shot by his victim as a "gun death"?
Go take a read - Weerdbeard is onna those right smaht bahstids you hear so much aboot...
That is all
I keep seeing this kind of article pop up in my Google Alerts, wondering where NRA is on Marissa Alexander. First off, NRA did not comment on the Martin/Zimmerman case. You do not see NRA standing up for George Zimmerman personally, and nor should they be expected to stick up for Marissa Alexander, if she justifiably qualifies for immunity or for a defense of self-defense under Florida law. But as I pointed out in a previous post, when you cut through all the media and the left’s bullshit on this case, Marissa Alexander is not the innocent they are portraying her as. She stands convicted largely because she engaged in behavior that destroyed her credibility to a jury.
A big problem with these cases is that no one paid attention to self-defense law before this case. Now a lot of journalist, pundits and non-pundits are bringing a vast ignorance to the table when speaking about them, and understanding how the justice system works. Many people imagine things to be fairly black ...
DeKalb County is back again, their previous incidents are here. I've noticed that much of the time bad actions are all within the same area. Take Seattle PD for example. This incident has holy hell written all over it.
What was her grievous offense that provoked a response like that from the officer?
The officer claimed he didn't know she was pregnant, possible but doubtful, and that she came at him threateningly. The prosecutors dropped charges ag...
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Nancy and Breda contacted me last week about doing Open Carry Day again this year, and I've just been lazy and haven't put up a post about it.
So, It's the first weekend in June. Yes, all weekend folks. Open carry if you can. I will, but then I open carry anyway, so this'll be just another typical, non-eventful weekend open carrying for me.
Open carry. It's no big deal.
When the media and the President actively foment racial divisiveness don't be surprised when these kinds of hate crimes are the result. This has been the most racially divisive administration in recent history. Hell, not just racially divisive, but flat out divisive. Alinsky tactics, anyone?
Of course in this case there will be no Al Sharpton's, no marches, no national calls for justice, no bounties or racist, violent mobs, and no personal appeals from the President.
With Zimmerman everyone jumped on the "this is clearly racism" bandwagon without any proof of it. There's still no proof of it, and now that the facts have come out and they support Zimmerman's self-defense claims, the media has been silent. Then you have cases like this, where it's far more cut and dry, the attackers are black, and they make the racially motivation for the attack clear, saying,
"This is for Trayvon ... Trayvon lives, white [man]. Kill that white [man]"
It doesn't get much more clear cut th...
So, I’m burning through my RSS feed, trying to catch up while I’m waiting on a build and I see this quote at Shall Not Be Questioned
I’m dying to see how that law is worded. How is “walking” defined? Two consecutive steps? More than two? “X or more steps in X amount of time”? Does it have to be in a forward direction, or is this like ‘traveling’ in the NBA? Can you sidestep and text at the same time?
“Not guilty, your honor. My client was texting while Riverdancing, which is clearly not prohibited by the ordinance.”
Didn’t even have to click on the link to see who wrote that. I’d know Tam’s work anywhere.
When I blog, I consider a post successful when it generates a conversation. Hits are nice, but if I’m not saying something that gets people thinking, it’s a lot of empty calories.
Oddly, there seems to be an inverse relationship between comments and hits. The higher hit days (usually a link from Say Uncle or Tam) tend to result in less being said where as the lower hit days have the tendency to generate more discussion.
Odd.
At a news conference this morning, Sens. Schumer and Bob Casey, D-Pa., will unveil the “Ex-PATRIOT” – “Expatriation Prevention by Abolishing Tax-Related Incentives for Offshore Tenancy” – ActI remember this part. It was in that ponderous novel by that shrill Russian chick, right?
Man, if Obama was serious about a green energy program that would actually work instead of being a logrolling back-scratching graft scheme (haha no, seriously,) then he should look into wrapping old Strident Ayn's corpse in copper wire and parking some magnets around her coffin. You could power half the eastern seaboard with all those megawatts.
(And since when was Chuck Schumer ever worried about folks crossing the border without permission?)
Writes Greg at Dum Vivimus, Vivamus:
I know some people who claim they are always armed...that they carry even around the house.Y'know, I'm not all that tacticool, I'm just lazy.
If I'm dressed, I have a gun on, mostly because the empty holster would feel silly. The holster is there because before I go to bed, the jeans I am going to wear the next day have all the stuff of life transferred to them from the current day's trousers: pocket knife, folding money, the little business card holder I use for ID and plastic, and belt & holster.
So, yeah, the gun goes on when I get dressed for the day and doesn't come off again until I'm crawling into my pyjamas, mostly because it's easier than constantly taking it on and off. It's not really for defense against home invaders (although I suppose it could be used for such,) because, thanks to the retired deputy who used to live here, Roseholme Cottage's front and rear entrances aren't the kind that sumdood can just kick ...
Your bullets should say something different. You're welcome.
Senator Schumer (D-NY) has introduced a bill to prohibit persons who renounce U.S. citizenship to avoid paying taxes from re-entering the United States. This acronym is "“Expatriation Prevention by Abolishing Tax-Related Incentives for Offshore Tenancy” and is aimed at Eduardo Saverin, a naturalized U.S. citizen who gave up his citizenship last year in anticipation of becoming a billionaire when Facebook IPOs shortly.
I confess that I am pretty repelled by this--especiall...
to make Sikhs happy, but can't get over stealing private property and making BS arrests. Wonderful, isn't it?
If you like motorcycles, check back in a bit... editing some photos from the weekend.
Yes, all of it. You see, it is logically inconsistent that we should live in a world where guns just go off willy nilly of their own volition, and yet, my dishwasher has never once spontaneously done the dishes.
Not. Even. Once.
It’s a travesty of epic proportions. Clearly there is some kind of rip in the space time continuum.
My vacuum cleaner? It just sits silently in the closet. It was designed for one purpose and one purpose alone and yet it stubbornly refuses to perform this action without outside intervention.
Something must be done. Either that, or I want to move to the parallel universe where the laundry just cleans itself. Or maybe the one where feral irons invade my closet to eradicate wrinkles.
Surely we could engineer just the right rift in space and time to pick and chose which inanimate objects would spontaneously do what they were designed to do.
Or maybe, just maybe, much like my lazy good-for-nothing vacuum, guns don’t just go off on their own. Nah. It couldn’t be that ...
No one makes it easier to buy steel targets and target stands than TacStrike. Their new turn key target packages include everything you need to start building your own set of training tools for your range. The people behind TacStrike are trainers themselves so they know a thing or two about setting up a range. [...]
The Daily Mail:
A $3 cold coin is expected to fetch $4 million when it goes up for auction next month.The 1870-S is one of just two ever made and is one of the rarest coins in US history.
It was discovered in a San Francisco bookshop in 1997 by a European tourist, who found it glued to the inside pages of a souvenir book.
The collector sat on his unbelievable find for 15 years, before bringing it to auction at the Four Seasons Auction Gallery outside Atlanta, Georgia.
The coin was produced by the San F...
From Robb:
The problem with Libertarianism is the same problem with Communism. Not everyone buys into your fantasy.
It’s...why Libertarians are powerless. Instead of trying to actually do something, they spend more time circle jerking in their purity tests than picking up their bowcasters and going door to door trying to explain their positions and heaven forbid - compromising where they can to move forward.
I bet the politicians who don’t want a fence on the border to keep people out would be just fine with one to keep people in.
Chuckie (all your stuff are belong to me) Schumer:
At a news conference this morning, Sens. Schumer and Bob Casey, D-Pa., will unveil the “Ex-PATRIOT” – “Expatriation Prevention by Abolishing Tax-Related Incentives for Offshore Tenancy” – Act to respond directly to Saverin’s move, which they dub a “scheme” that would “help him duck up to $67 million in taxes.”Because how dare you move away from the robbers? Have you no patriotism?
The senators will call Saverin’s move an “outrage” and will outline their plan to re-impose taxes on expatriates like Saverin even after they flee the United States and take up residence in a foreign country. Their proposal would also impose a mandatory 30 percent tax on the capital gains of anybody who renounces their U.S. citizenship.
The plan would bar individuals like Saverin from ever reentering the United States again.
H/T to Snarkybytes.
"In PACA, you cannot speak out against the city, nor the police department, you cannot associate yourself with people who are speaking out, and you cannot cause any kind of problem in the city as long as you're carrying a PACA badge," said Rev. Jefferson. [More]They issue stinking badges...?
Why?
It looks like the Ft. Worth chapter provides "distinct clothing and official governmental identification."
G...
The July issue of GUNS (including my "Rights Watch" column "Is 'Cowering...Only Recourse' to School Shooting?") and the July/August issue of American Handgunner are now online.
They traded grand pianos for a bit of food. [More]The times, they are a-changin'.
Officer's gun accidentally fires in San Antonio Middle School [More]"...his gun discharged...the gun accidentally fired..."
Great job, "Authorized Journalists"!
On the plus side, at least it wasn't a dark colored sedan doing the shooting this time.
[Via Parrothead Jeff]
So, when you were young, did you want to grow up to be an oath-breaker, or is that something you decided in later years was the best way to feed yourself? [Read]
I suppose there is a chance you may be so ignorant you have no idea what I'm referring to...and that's actually the scariest possibility.
[Via William T]
And look, the antis are bragging about it on Facebook--and promising to go after the next venue NRA tries to use--seems they hate the First Amendment as much as they do the Second:
There is a "peace keeping" force. They got bombed a day or 2 ago. And there is an arms embargo. (Or there is supposed to be...) Diplomat: Confidential report finds Iran shipping arms to Syria - CNN.comA confidential U.N. report reveals Iran is exporting arms to the Syrian government in violation of a ban on weapons sales, the same day President Bashar al-Assad blamed the violence in his country
Given that deposits in Greek banks might be converted from Euros to Drachmas - if things fall apart - what would you do with your money? The slow-motion run on Greece’s banks - the Financial Times – FT.comAs we reported in today’s dead-tree edition, senior eurozone officials responsible for monitoring the currency area’s banking system said the rate of withdrawals thus far falls short of a panic.
George Soros Quadruples His Investment in Gold
Don’t these people know you can’t eat gold? Some Internet wisenheimer should tell them that. “Excuse me. Mr. Soros? I know you’re a brazillionaire and I just play a lot of World of Warcraft, but I’d like to point out that your fifty million dollars in gold ETFs has zero nutritional value. Just in case you had it confused with canned tuna.”
Water something?
House Burglaries Baffle Staff, Police
Go read about whose offices were broken into. There's a definitive, err, political leaning to the offices that were burgled. Now, they're not certain if any documents or other sensitive materials were taken, but a whole bunch of electronics and cash went missing. Thieves grabbed not just office electronics but also personal devices left inside, memorabilia, and even someone's private stash of hooch.Puzzling break-ins over the last month at the offices of at least three House members and several committees have U.S. Capitol Police gumshoes working to find a pattern and the culprits, with missing items ranging from cash and expensive computer equipment to autographed baseballs and alcohol.In at least four of the cases, thieves broke into the offices at night when doors were locked, leading some staffers to believe they were victims of an inside job.
Now, it may be 100% coin...
Blogson Merlin sends in this post for your daily dose of automotive humor:
Fiat uses Google Street view to photo bomb Volkswagen
Someone at Fiat has a sense of humor, and that can be something rare in the automotive industry. Apparently, Fiat was paying attention to when the Google Street View camera cars were cruising around a Swedish city called Södertälje where VW’s Swedish headquarters is located. When it was determined that the Street View vehicles were going to cruise by VW headquarters, someone zipped in and parked a Fiat 500 by the front door.Here's the photo from the link:
They are very optimistic at this time that the bill can pass the House and things appear to be shaping up in the Senate as well. If the bill get this through both houses in May, the right to carry lobby will be ready to go for the override of the governor’s promised veto in the fall veto session.
One of the core urban centers of anti-gun thought and culture is under siege by those who believe the Bill of Rights means something, regardless of whether you live in Chicago or Cheyenne. Eventually, the gates will fall. Bloomberg is next.
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In any attempt to criminalize activity, you have a real problem with trying to define the behavior that is criminals, such as this texting while walking law in Fort Lee, New Jersey:
I’m dying to see how that law is worded. How is “walking” defined? Two consecutive steps? More than two? “X or more steps in X amount of time”? Does it have to be in a forward direction, or is this like ‘traveling’ in the NBA? Can you sidestep and text at the same time?
“Not guilty, your honor. My client was texting while Riverdancing, which is clearly not prohibited by the ordinance.”
And local yo-yos are usually a lot worse about definitions than the states and feds, which is why most states generally limit the legislative power of local governments to petty crimes. Maybe we need a crime for being stupid while occupying public office. Of course, then the anarchists would have their feast, wouldn’t they?
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It’s happening and a company that produces little has a lot of damn money. Also, one executive has renounced his citizenship to avoid taxes. Reap, sow. Anyway, we can’t have people going Galt so there ought to be a law: Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has a status update for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin: Stop attempting to dodge your taxes by renouncing your U.S. citizenship or never come to back to the U.S. again.
Update: What’s next, fences?
Verizon to end unlimited data plan. They let people keep theirs even if you switch from 3G to 4G. Now, switching will mean you lose unlimited. So, go upgrade now.
ZOMG!!!111eleven Police Gun Buy Back Nets Rocket Launcher.
Only, you know, not.
Obama’s Veteran Administration urging family members to take guns from vets. If I tried that with my dad, he’d shoot me.
The Brady Campaign is pushing this video.
So this woman’s husband died in the line of duty. Sad and tragic. But are we REALLY talking about guns, and illegal gun sales. (I haven’t looked up the original story of the case because the obviously skewed and biased video is damning enough)?
We have a girlfriend buying a gun for a felon. I assume the straw buy was because the GF could have passed a background check.
A law wouldn’t have stopped this. Its already illegal!
A Nine-time Felon who was out on Parole who was armed and committing crimes.
A law wouldn’t have stopped this. Its already illegal!
A man engaged in a gun battle with police and committed murder!
A law wouldn’t have stopped this. Its already illegal!
Sorry Brady Bunch, I know you love blood dancing, but this is a problem with letting monsters walk among us (monsters you ...
Of course we know that anti-rights activists view the 2nd Amendment with nothing but spite, and would repeal it if they could. Given that they can’t, they just push laws that violate that.
Sebastian and Miguel talk about CSGV’s active hostility to George Zimmerman receiving a fair trial by a jury of his peers. Why, because he’s a lawful gun owner, and they hate him. Further the new evidence presented again all agrees with the story we heard on day one from Sanford Police. Zimmerman took a documented beating that night, and all evidence points that Martin was doing all of the beating. Overall I’m standing clear until all the evidence is released at the trial (specifically Martin’s blood toxicology, which is the one piece of evi...
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I am now the proud owner of a Crimson Trace CMR-201 Rail Master™. I am an unabashed fan of Crimson Trace products and have several of their lasers on my pistols. I’ve always preferred them over other companies’ lasers because of their philosophy of ‘positive grip = laser on’.
Generally, this means molding their lasers to fit on the frames of the more popular pistols or replacing their handgrips altogether. However, there are times when the infinite configurations of every pistol & rifle known to man prevents this from being a universally achievable goal. Hence the CMR-201, Crimson Trace’s first universal laser.
Ambulance Driver posts about a gentleman who threatened to commit suicide on his watch. As is his duty, he hauls Mr. Gonnaenditall to the hospital for evaluation. This apparently makes him a jackbooted thug of the Nazi socialist state.
Seems some Libertarians who don’t quite understand that the zipper in the back means it’s just a suit and not their real fur got said fur in a knot because AD did his job. And by fur-in-knots, I mean shit this from the infamous TJIC
How does this differ from "OK, Jew, I understand that you want to leave this prison camp, and that would be OK by me, EXCEPT for the fact that I'd get written up and get three demerits if I let you, therefore I won't let you – your actions have consequences for other people, and you have to realize this!"
Reread that. If it helps you comprehend it, try reading it with no sense of scale or proportion. You see, observing someone clearly indicate they will kill themselves and taking them (yes, by force) to a hospital so they c...
I was promised a segment on flesh-eating bacteria on the Today show this morning, and so far all I've got is dead Kennedys and Cannes.
Also, some legal analyst (snort!) talking about how John Edwards is such a noble and selfless dude for sparing his daughter being called to the witness stand, as though suddenly, after 58 years, that lying weasel suddenly figured out how to care about somebody other than John Edwards. That was pretty funny.
It's what made this country great.
The Mrs. watched Glee last night, which means that I watched Glee last night. It's a very good thing indeed that I don't have a pretty 17 year old daughter singing Paradise By he Dashboard Light.
It would not have ended well. Just sayin'.
I need to disseminate this further.
We lament that gun design is kinda stagnant with relatively little to make you stand up and take notice... but when novel designs come out they don't stick around. Folks don't buy enough of them (whitney wolverine, SNAZZY), or there is some inherent flaw that can't be overcome (a pepperbox, mossberg? really?), or the inertia of a conservative (small c, mateba) customer base weighs against the new and 'improved.'
Pah. I climb up on this soapbox too much.
But! There are an Imperial buttload of ODD guns on that the site Weerd has now pointed me to. So hours and hours of TBolt entertainment to sift through. I feel like I did when I found Hickok45 on youtube.
Detectives say Stone was just out for a morning jog, on his normal route, when a dark-colored, four-door sedan pulled by, slowed down, fired several shots at him, then pulled off, without ever stopping. [More]Oh, wait, this version has more detail, albeit it presents the same assumption about autovolition:
I wonder why some "Authorized Journalists" take it on themselves to suppress basic and essential facts about violent crimes, especially when it's the public that's at risk, and it's the public being appealed to to help identify the seda...uh...killers at large.
Several people witnessed Stone’s murder. They told police a dark-colored car driving north on 67th Street passed Stone as he was jogging, and without slowing down, opened fire on him. Witnesses say there were two black men inside the car.
Not really. ...
Reports of minor raids, rumors of intended movements by the enemy on a large scale, actual suffering on the part of the settlers for want of provisions, depreciation in Continental currency which had by now become practically worthless, and the difficulties of affording a semblance of protection by reinforcing the meager garrisons already posted, due to the impossibility of obtaining supplies for the militia, the only force available for this service, had by May brought about a most lamentable condition on the frontiers. As a result of this condition the more remote settlements were reported as daily breaking up and Colonel Van Schaick was led to express (1) the fear that unless some speedy and effectual measures were taken to inspire the despondent people with confidence, Schenectady would in all probability soon be the frontier to the westward. [More]
by Brian LaMaster
If there is anyplace you should feel secure, it's in your home. But statistically speaking, your home is the most dangerous place to be simply because you spend so much time there.
There are over 2 million reported home invasions every year, including burglaries, rapes, kidnappings, murders, and hostage situations. In a 10-year period, you face a 1 in 5 chance that your home will be invaded. Over a 20-year period, the odds are about 50/50 that you'll be the victim of some form of home invasion.
Many people plan for this by purchasing a firearm. Being armed is always a good idea, but a gun isn't the only answer. And it's certainly not a “plan.” Preparing for home defense is really about creating layers of deterrence to lower the odds that a bad guy will enter your home. Plus, you need to establish a specific set of actions to take if someone does break in and presents a threat to you or your family.
For the average home owner, here are 4 simple “layers” of defense to consider:
Maintain the appearance of your home.
Burglars and bad guys are generally lazy opportunists. They look for easy targets. S...
Zero Hedge – Nationalized Spanish Bank Plummets On News Of Bank Run:
The problem with bank runs is that once they start, they don’t stop. And while the world was conveniently distracted by events in Greece, debating whether or not people were withdrawing money in droves (they were), the real bank run happened elsewhere, namely in Spain, where just nationalized bank Bankia moments ago plunged 30% and was halted following an El Mundo report that “customers had withdrawn €1 billion over the past week.” In other words - a bank run (but whatever you do, don’t call it that – it’s not the politically correct and accepted nomenclature) which has sent shockwaves through Europe, pushed the EURUSD under 1.27, and bond yields in their traditional “Europe is open” direction – wider.
So, reader Joe (and chiefjaybob) read my post about the city of Lynn, MA and their trials and tribulations over the snow and ice budget, and he sent me this story from his home state of Illinois:
Dixon mayor responds after comptroller arrested
DIXON — Allegations that a finance officer for a small northern Illinois city was able to steal a staggering $30 million from government coffers to run a nationally renowned horse breeding business inspired calls today for more rigorous oversight in small communities that typically face less scrutiny.Dixon's mayor pledged new measures to protect the city's finances a day after FBI agents arrested longtime comptroller Rita Crundwell. She is accused of using the money to fund one of the nation's leading horse breeding operations and feed a lavish lifestyle that kept her outfitted with cars and hundreds of thousands of dol...
So, I mentioned a while back about having a custom AR lower made by Wally? You know, the one violated by Weerd like the TSA violates grandmothers? Well, I've decided I want to take it in a (slightly) different direction. I've talked before about wanting an AR pattern rifle set up for long distance shooting (well, more so than the 50 - 100 yards my Bushmaster currently enjoys). So I'm going to do something about it.
First off, I'm ordering another lower from York Arms. There's a slim chance that this rifle might end up on a hunt of sorts, either hog hunting or varminting, and I'd rather not have the game warden eying the "Fill your hands, you son of a bitch" selector or the "5.56POODLE" caliber. This one will be done by the books, with a traditional caliber designation and a standard "Fire"/"Safe" safety switch. There's some intense discussion with the proprietor of York Arms over the initial lower - I may bite the NFA bullet and SBR it - but that's tabled for now.
So, I have a new lower. I'm go...
Valkyrie Armament BSR-MOD1 + SlideFire Stock =
One of the things I never cared for about the iPhone was screen size. There’s a whole lot of phone there and not enough screen. Looks like Apple has ordered larger 4 inch screens and 7 inch screens. I’m assuming for a larger iPhone or one that has more efficient use of the space on the front. And a 7 inch iPad. I like the iPads but thought they were a bit too big for what I’d mostly use it for. And I like the Kindle Fire for that stuff. A smaller iPad would be pretty cool.
A look at bad gun buyer habits: I’m looking for a S&W Sigma; I don’t want to carry my XDm. I don’t want to scratch it.
A look at bad gun shop employee habits: Please Sir, Take My Money In Exchange For This Firearm
Never working, can’t comment on the first. But having bought plenty of guns, I hate when I’m obviously interested in something and the employees are chatting amongst themselves about whatever just came in the shop. I used to wait. Now, I just leave.
Officer has negligent discharge at middle school. Via the duck, who notes the press included a descriptive photo of how it happen.
A review at Robb’s, where he slapped it on the Kriss.
Saiga zombie-stomper. No, I’m not kidding
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He gets called on the carpet for his claim of accountability on the economy he made when he was first elected. His answer? Well he needs ...
From Ambulance Driver.
It isn’t a “line of work” for me. It’s who I am. Don’t want me interfering in your decision to off yourself? Fine. Don’t. Get. Me. Involved.
It’s that simple. My number is 911. Don’t call it, or don’t make spiteful threats that spur other people to call it. Just get on with your business, preferably alone and in private.
Some people are taking offense on a Libertarian level for the instances where AD legally (and I’d say morally) can’t take “No” for an answer.
He’s made similar remarks about giving Jehova’s Witnesses blood transfusions. Its a mortal sin for them to “Consume Blood”, but in many instances not administering blood products means they die right there, which to Kelly (and myself) is also a “Mortal Sin” (quotes because I don’t actually ascribe to Mortal Sin on the religious level, and I never really took the time to talk faith with Kelly when we hang out…we&...
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Or rather, in our car...
So, the situation:
We're cruising I-90 near the Idaho/Washington border, heading towards route 95 (which hits the 90 at Coeur D'Alene), at plus 7.
We had been by that spot less than two hours before, and noticed a speed trap being worked by multiple Idaho State Police troopers (in their black Dodge Chargers... very cool/evil looking).
All of a sudden, a little black Acura, with smoked out (and blue tinted) headlights, taillights, turn signals, and license plate cover (and this was at twilight... so... yeah, you already know they're a douchebag); passes us at about plus 15.
Idaho troopers are almost always fine with +7, sometimes with +9; but anything +11 or more, and you're definitely going to be getting a ticket; particularly if you're an out of state driver (because they know you aren't likely to contest the ticket).
Chris: "Hmm... wonder if I should warn him about the speed trap up ahead...?"
Mel: "Nah... he's from Washington" ...
A funny coincidence (and very slight spoiler)related to the film "The Avengers".
In the movie, a "BIG BATTLE"™ occurs around Tony Starks fictional headquarters in midtown Manhattan, the "Stark Tower".
Said fictional "Stark Tower", is sited on the spot of the world famous MetLife building (originally, the world famous Pan-Am building), at 200 park avenue; which happens to butt up against Grand Central Station. It's also just across,and a block down Lexington Avenue, from the Chrysler Building (at 42nd and Lexington).
Coincidentally, for a few months on a contract, I happened to work kitty corner across 42nd street from the Chrysler building; at Pfizer world headquarters (42nd, between Lex and 3rd).
During that time, I lived in two different corporate apartments in Manhattan. The first place was on the upper east side, at 86th between 2nd and 3rd (just down the block from Papaya King, and a couple more blocks from the park) , that had me taking the subway down from the 86th st. station, to Grand Central, every morning (I even occasionally walked it. 40 blocks isn't a "long" walk in the rural sense, but in Manhattan terms it's...
I ordered $25 worth of Polaroid glass from Amazon (a 37mm thread mount macro lens) and screwed it on to my video camera; this is the result. The video looks strange because I tried Youtube’s video stabilizer software; you can see the defects in the glass move against the background if you watch carefully.
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I have downloaded a number of free books by Jules Verne for my Kindle--many of which are completely new to me--and I thought that I was pretty familiar with Verne's work. I read and enjoyed many of his novels when I was in elementary school.
Back on the subject of snitching … A friend of mine with, shall we say, interested and varied experiences in life (e.g. having seen the justice system from both sides), wrote this in response to my earlier posts on this subject: If I could have seen [you know who] right before she got busted, I [...]
"Not in our backyard," as the saying goes. From Fox News: The winds blowing through Canada's broad St. Lawrence Valley and across Vermont's hilltops are stirring up an international tempest over which country's laws should govern how those breezes are harnessed for electricity. Some residents of the Quebec town of Stanstead ...
It seems that someone has had an idea
For years, critics of the filibuster have failed to convince senators to change the procedural delaying tactic. Now they’re taking their case to the courts.
The nonpartisan nonprofit Common Cause sued the U.S. Senate on Monday, challenging the constitutionality of the filibuster rules that require routine 60-vote thresholds for bills and nominations that often have majority support. Several House Democrats and three undocumented students who would be aided by the so-called DREAM Act also joined the suit.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, comes at a time of increased partisan gridlock in the Senate and amid complaints the filibuster is being abused by minority Republicans.
Firstly, anyone who believes that Common Cause is a “nonpartisan” outfit is an idiot. I need no further proof of this accusation than to state that the above link goes to Politico.
Secondly, I can sue the Senate? WTF!?! Why haven’t I been told this before. This should be Day 1 i...
This story has been around the blogs, but its worth a mention here.
Daniel Chong, the UC San Diego student who was left in a Drug Enforcement Administration holding cell for nearly five days, said the time spent there was a life-altering experience. On Wednesday, the DEA apologized for the incident….Chong said he was at a friend’s house in University City celebrating 4/20, a day many marijuana users set aside to smoke, when agents came inside and raided the residence. Chong was then taken to the DEA office in Kearny Mesa.
He said agents questioned him, and then told him he could go home. One agent even offered him a ride, Chong said. No criminal charges were filed against him.
But Chong did not go home that night. Instead, he was placed in a cell for five days without any human contact and was not given food or drink. In his desperation, he said he was forced to drink his own urine.
He even attempted to kill himself with the glass of his glasses. All for smoking some weed! Further ...
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Among the many youtube channels that I subscribe to, Iraqveteran8888 is one of those channels that most people write off as just a bunch of rednecks that do stupid things with guns. Take them for what you will, I have taken a liking to them. They are a little redneck, but you know what, so am I and I’m not ashamed of it. They do lots interesting things with different firearms and I would feel a lot safer on the firing line with them than I would your average Joe at the local range. Plus, they seem to share a love of all surplus military rifles like myself. Several of their videos have to do with a little Brazilian CBC Model SB .410 shotgun someone brought into their pawn shop. It had a cracked stock and bent barrel. They decided to make some instructional videos about the dangers of loading the wrong ammo in a gun not designed for it. Well, after watching the little gun digest a couple .444 Marlin with no sign of damage, they decided to take it in another direction and see what exactly would kill it. The results are extremely surprising. This humble hunk of junk took on a total of 9 rounds o...
Wednesday, 16 May
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I am sure that all of my readers are familiar with the poem "Horatius At The Bridge"*:
But the Consul's brow was sad, and the Consul's speech was low,However I am not certain that one can count one's self a True American if one is not aware of the companion verse, "A Ballad Of The Republic"...
And darkly looked he at the wall, and darkly at the foe.
"Their van will be upon us before the bridge goes down;
And if they once might win the bridge, what hope to save the town?"
Then out spoke brave Horatius, the Captain of the Gate:
"To every man upon this earth, death cometh soon or late;
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods..."
*You are, are you not?
...My regular readers will know that (a) I’ve recently been pounding bugs out of GPSD with Coverity, and (b) I hate doing stupid clicky-dances on websites when I think I ought to be able to shove them a programmatically-generated job card that tells them what to do.
So, here’s a side-effect of my recent work with Coverity: coverity-submit. Set up a config file once, and afterwards just run coverity-submit in your project directory and stand back. Supports multiple projects. Because, manularity is evil.
Here’s the HTML documentation.
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A friend just graduated from college and looking for an job in accounting, preferably in Kentucky or Tennessee. If you have any leads on such position, please let me know and I will forward the resume.
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A friend’s cat relaxes on a guest.
Gremlin is waiting out the rain.
In response to a suggestion that steak be sliced and added to a salad:
I have to admit, I kind of like serving some animals up dead on beds of the stuff they usually eat.Howard "Schlock Mercenary" Taylor, on Facebook.
My favorite? Lion steaks on tri-tip of antelope.
Electronic Arts’ quest for realism hatched this new idea… Partner with real brands:
Trijicon:
SureFire:
LaRue Tactical:
US Optics:
The partnership idea is win-win if you ask me. If nothing else, it will at least help educate the kids in the proper equipment and it’s use. I just wish other games such as Grand Theft Auto would partner with actual car manufacturers. hahah wishful thinking I suppose in that case.
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By mid next week I’ll have the 5.56x45mm, California RKBA, Keep Calm And Carry One, and M16 Selector Switch t-shirts re-stocked.
Everyone on the notify lists will be contacted at that point. I’m going to try and be better with keeping existing shirt designs in stock from now on.
Check out ENDO Apparel for shirts I have in stock, and/or add yourself to the notification list if you want me to email you when i’m restocked on a particular size of a t-shirt.
Thanks to everyone for your patience.
-ENDO-Mike
Obviously fake, but pretty awesome:
The muzzle sweep on the initial presentation, and continuous poor muzzle discipline was a nice touch.
Child soldier too! Trolls gonna troll. Interestingly enough the commercial was made many years ago by Amnesty International.
Funny how it has the opposite effect they would have hoped for on gun owners, especially those with a sense of humor.
Thoughts?
Hat tip: Rick
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It's happened several times before. Good alternator, good battery, dead battery. Over the last two or three days, I noticed my good starter getting slower and slower. Since vehicles these days, inexplicably, have only a voltage meter, I couldn't tell from my instrumentation whether I had extra drain, a dead battery, or dirty terminals. You do get a slight clue though, if you watch the voltage closely immediately after start-up. If everything is working normally, you'll see the voltage start out a bit lower, then creep up to normal running voltage in a few seconds. My meter was rock solid. With a current meter, such as was the norm in the 1960s, you'll see the charge or discharge current. Much more useful in my opinion. Best would be to have both volts and amps.
The pickup barely started this morning, and at work it didn't start at all. Like a jerk, only then did I clean the battery terminals. Still no go, so I got a boost from Dan. The terminals get corroded and that can sometimes allow current to flow one direction, but not the other (that's a diode, see). In this case the batt would discharge just fine, but it couldn't get any charge current (hen...
I haven't read the book, but now I'm interested. Maybe I'll get it for my daughter so she can bring it into her history classes.
One thing I want to call to your attention is that the later printings of the book contain an "explanation" in the forward by a Marxist professor, telling us not to take it seriously. What was that Michelle Obama said about the left's need to change our history and our traditions?
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Thank you from Sweetie I was supposed to wait for a cute new picture before giving this thank you. But since Sweetie doesn’t seem to have developed thumbs yet, no photo is forthcoming. So … THANK YOU. Thanks to your greatheartedness, Sweetie the troubled, deaf, dislocated, heartworm-positive heeler now has more than enough to complete [...]
This is something I wrote, to just get it out, with no intention of putting on the blog. Yet it's as much of me as my hair color or my height. There are many subjects written about on the web, and one that touches home for many people, personally and otherwise, is one people are afraid to write about, yet so many have lived with. It shapes who we become in the aftermath, those of us that walk
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Author of Cornered Cat and editor of Concealed Carry magazine. Amazingly talented writer.
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Photographer/model Chryseis Dawn.
David Codrea writes Obama memorials bury Fast and Furious law enforcement deaths
John Richardson: A Lack Of Class
OK, the zombie apocalypse schtick has officially jumped the shark. Check out this Saiga zombie-stomper:
Yes, that's a throwing axe on the side.
Whoopie Goldberg comes out of the bitter clinger gun owner NRA member closet...
Seen at Joe's.
‘We’ve Spent Enough Time Playing Small Ball' [More]
From the man who puts the "eh" in "Boner"...
In other news, he was "very pleased with the sandwiches." When it says he "pushed Obama" on Fast and Furious, it's not clear if small balls came into play...
Bongwater, Mississippi and Hotdogwater, New Jersey. Now I just need to work them into my writing for laffz.
Add Amendment Six of the Bill of Rights to the list of rights that anti-gun groups happily disparage:
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
Miguel has the evidence. I’d note that even other lefties are asking them to get off the crazy train at this point. I think Miguel is correct that they will likely come to regret, over the long term, throwing in their lot with the charlatans who played the media and the American public about the true nature of this case. For people who became emotionally invested in the case, and the conclusions driven by the narrative, they will likely never accept...
Our opponents view of things in the past month or so:
The reality of the last couple of months: 11 wins for gun owners federally, three in Florida, one in Georgia, two in Mississippi, and ...
Today's Earworm, Breaking Benjamin - The Diary of Jane
I’ve highlighted the WTF moment on this page:
YouTube needs to fix their recommendation listing.
Not to mention Rihanna up top. WTF!? Really
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We are upgrading the Camp Borepatch main gate, which is coming along well (I'll post pictures on Friday, by which time the concertina wire and claymores* should be installed). But the process reminded me that defensive works are only as good as the personnel manning them. For example, a soldier who doesn't let a Sergeant Major scale his fence for a "surprise inspection," instead holding him at gunpoint because they're not on the Access List:
"Sergeant Major, First Sergeant, if you would like to return in the morning or return with authorization from the site commander, I would be more than happy to let you pass, but you're not on my list. If you're not on the list you can't come in. Plain and simple, I've got my orders and I ain't violating them, because I don't know you." As soon as my hand touched my pistol Dan radioed me, "Spoon what's the word? Who are these guys?" I tucked the clipboard under my left arm and fumbled with the mic, never taking my hand off the pistol.
"DeGarr, ECP, I have a situation here. I got a Sergeant M...
While out I went by a bicycle shop; nice weather, and I've always liked one for short trips to the store and library and such.
Damn.
Either I picked the wrong shop, or bicycles have gone WAY the hell up. The least expensive I saw there was close to $500, there were a lot over $1k, and a few over $3k. Some of those cost more than my first truck and my last motorcycle.
I think I'll look at other shops a bit.
Or something like that.
Few days back got a request from the folks at Ammoforsale.com: would I be willing to test some ammo and post a review? After a moment of "Free ammo! My opinion is desired!! Yeah!" I replied that I would indeed be willing to do such.
The ammo arrived today, .45acp of course:
One 20-round box each of Magtech Guardian Gold 185-grain +P, Remington Golden Saber 185-grain, Speer Gold Dot 230-grain, Hornady 230-grain XTP +P, and Winchester PDX1 230-grain.
As I want pictures of my manly self shootingof the process it'll take a few days to set up the shoot; I'll need to find someone to come along and take pictures. Which'll give me a bit to think of how to do it. Right now...
Apparently, some people think a paramedic doing their job = fascist. That’s some creative reasoning there. And also just exactly like guarding a concentration camp.
Let’s step away from the recreational chemicals for a bit, k?
Once a paramedic arrives on scene, whatever happens becomes very much their business. Yes, consent is needed in order to provide care, but consent is automatically implied if the patient is incapable of giving it. And since threatening to off yourself doesn’t fall into normal, rational conversation, the paramedic/first responder has no choice but to assume you have taken leave of your senses.
Hell, if I care about you even a bit and you tell me you want to end your life, I’m gonna do everything in my power to prevent you from doing so. If that means taking you to the hospital against your will, I’m going to do it. Because if I care about you at all, I’d rather have you really pissed off at me than have to go to your funeral and answer to everyone else that cared about you. ...
I have used a ton of different clear screen protectors in an effort to get more mileage out of my electronics, especially the ones that I use outdoors. For the most part, they were all found lacking. They would either peel, shrink, or discolor. Then I found the ZAGG invisibleSHIELD. They aren’t the cheapest screen [...]
My new Fox News piece starts this way:
The new medical reports on the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case tell us a lot. And it is not just for what they find, but also what they don’t find.First, the reports provide striking evidence that Zimmerman did not start the fight with Martin, and that Zimmerman shot Martin in self-defense. Martin’s injuries were two-fold: broken skin on his knuckles and the fatal gunshot wound.
Zimmerman’s injuries involved: a fractured nose, a pair of black eyes, two lacerations to the back of his head and a minor back injury.
It takes considerable force to break the skin on multiple knuckles. The large range of injuries on Zimmerman indicates that the Martin’s attack was prolonged. . . . .
Fox News is reporting that the medical records of George Zimmerman indicate that he had multiple injuries consistent with taking an ass-whipping.
Court records show George Zimmerman had a pair of black eyes, a nose fracture and two cuts to the back of his head after the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.That's interesting. What is also interesting is to consider the non-fatal wounds that Trayvon Martin's body revealed.
Local station WFTV also reported Tuesday that an autopsy report showed the only injury Martin had -- aside from a fatal gunshot wound -- was broken skin on his knuckles. The injury noted in the autopsy report could support Zimmerman's claim that Martin punched him in the nose before slamming his head on the sidewalk.Oops. It looks like maybe, just maybe, Zimmerman was convinced that he was in danger of death or great bodily harm when he shot Martin. Sounds like a self-defense claim to me. Sounds like a convincing self-defense claim that medical records support....
It looks like a small Catholic university is dropping health care insurance for its students beginning with the fall term. Franciscan University told its faculty and students:
“The Obama Administration has mandated that all health insurance plans must cover “women’s health services” including contraception, sterilization, and abortion-causing medications as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA),” the university says in a new post on its website. “Up to this time, Franciscan University has specifically excluded these services and products from its student health insurance policy, and we will not participate in a plan that requires us to violate the consistent teachings of the Catholic Church on the sacredness of human life.”In another story, Cardinal Donald Wuerl blast...
So two days ago I wiped out the big stock gate of my closest neighbor (and very best customer) by essentially bashing it repeatedly with a big backhoe. This did not go unnoticed.
To say I was anxious to make good the damage would be a wild understatement. So I dug out the broken stub of the gatepost, along with its heartbreakingly massive concrete plug. Then I supplied a new (used) gatepost from my own stash and two sacks of concrete (from Landlady's) and reset the post. Did that right away.
Yesterday morning, after the concrete had a chance to set, I came back and together we re-hung the big gate. He seemed happy with that, but you know a repair like that is never quite as good as it was before the act of destruction and I really didn't want him thinking of me every time the thing creaked or sagged or was harder to roll than before. I did tell him that if further repairs were needed I would do whatever possible to make it good, but he's aware I have virtually no money and may not be capable of truly keeping that pledge.
Spent yesterday evening brooding about it. Yeah, the gate's back up and seems to work just fine. But it wasn't enough. I st...
Obama’s budget garnered zero votes (99-0) in the Senate, following the zero votes (414-0) it received in the House back in March.
The last time the Democrat-controlled Senate passed a budget was 2009.
h/t Say Anything
Zero.
You just can’t get less than that.
The new Marquette University Law School poll showed Walker taking a lead of 6 percentage points lead among likely voters, with the Republican governor 50 percent of the vote and Barrett with 44. The numbers were far closer just two weeks ago, when a poll released shortly before the May 8 recall primary showed Walker and Barrett in a virtual dead heat.
At the end of the day, it’s looking like Wisconsinites know Walker. They know Barrett. And not much has changed since last time.
It’s great news for Wisconsin that the state is adding jobs and the economy is improving. I largely agree with John Torinus’ take:
In short, the UI numbers are hard core numbers. It’s bed rock data.
The whole political brouhaha in the state has been over a survey conducted by the federal Department of Labor (DOL). For years, the less reliable survey numbers generally tracked pretty well with the UI census – until mid-year 2011. For Q3 2011, the DOL survey showed a job loss of 8500 in the state. When the real numbers came out from the UI census, Q3 showed a gain of 2876.
Of course, that variance was lost in the political dust, but it does show that something has gone kaflooey with the DOL survey. As one economist said, “Put a box of salt on the survey numbers.”Gov. Walker’s people finally unearthed the Q4 UI numbers, and they reversed the jobs picture. Instead of losing jobs, the state is gaining jobs. That squares with every other economic metric, such as a falling unemployment rate, rising state t...
One of the occasional "arguments" (and I do use that term lightly) you will see come out of the more-deranged anti-rights cultists is that parts of the Constitution, and, specifically, the Bill of Rights, are so outdated that we can simply ignore them or abrogate them at will, and it is No Big Deal (TM)*. The Third Amendment is typically held up as an example of how "outdated" the Constitution is, and by way of a compositional logical fallacy, the Second Amendment is thrown under the bus as being "antiquated". Of course, the First, Fourth, Fifth, and other Amendments are left intact, because they have "modern relevance", and "people use them every day", unlike those outdated Second and Third Amendments which we apparently have no need of any more.
Yeah, tell that to the British subjects:
Some London residents are getting...
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The National Rifle Association has caused more death and injury to Americans then any terrorist group.
James T. Brown
May 1, 2012
Letter: NRA lobby is an assault on U.S.
[If you squint and hold your head just right you might be able to say that he is technically correct. But the path is somewhat tenuous and leads to protective violence rather than criminal violence.
Brown, of course, did not intend his comments to be taken in this manner. Brown should be given all the scorn and ridicule normally given to those that claim teaching of evolution, mixed race marriages, or women being allowed to vote is responsible drought, earthquakes, and the milk cows going dry.—Joe]
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I really love my Leatherman Micra. It has sat at my right hand on my desktop for years now, but I've never attached it to my keychain. While undeniably useful, it's just a bit too bulky to hang there between the Zed Drei's alarm fob and the knockoff Photon light.
At Fry's the other day, however, I ran into a package deal containing the Leatherman Style and a Lenser V9
Congress should strip DC of all governing power and take direct control. This is all you need to see to come to that conclusion:
After being injured on his second tour of duty in Afghanistan, Lt. Augustine Kim spent the night in a D.C. jail for possessing unregistered guns....
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Vice President Joe Biden brought the ...
In the Democratic primary for the U.S. House seat currently occupied by Republican Raul Labrador, there were two candidates: Cynthia Clinkingbeard, and Jimmy Farris.
| United States Representative, District 1 | ||||
| DEM | Cynthia Clinkingbeard | |||
And it's just too bad the clowns involved couldn't be made to pay it out of their own pockets
snork... hehehehehe
Dear random person who has been picking items on Jennifer‘s Amazon wish list and shipping them to us,
Thank you for the StayAway cat deterrent. As random items have been coming in from Amazon, I never expected as high-dollar an item as this thing is. In fact, although we had planned on purchasing one for ourselves, we hadn’t quite decided that it was worth the forty-five bucks yet. Thanks to you, now we don’t have to. We will be placing this device in turn in several different locations in our home where we would prefer the cats not tread and/or lay down. Cat hair on the ironing board sucks, even when a human is not watching. I know the AV receiver is nice and warm and snuggly when it is on, but it needs to have more cooling airflow than a cat’s body will allow. One of my major pet peeves is cats on countertops. I’m pretty well disgusted with a cat on a kitchen counter, but I’d prefer they stay off of ...
2 Cent Tactical is the best thing to come out of Canada since poutine (and that is pretty high praise). Ryan and company run a great blog that is full of fair reviews and solid pictures. They also happen to have a killer logo that looks great on patches and were kind enough to send [...]
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In case of civil unrest, rioters would be well served to stay away from people with rings on their fingers. A single person might choose to retreat, but those who can’t maneuver due to kids would be more inclined to make a stand. They won’t feel guilty about removing any perceived threats to the kids and spouse.
You don’t know what it is yet, but can you guess when it will have its first stoppage? See the contest rules and participate at pistol-forum.com. Train hard & stay safe! ToddG
T0 the RNC/GOP:
While disappointing, it’s hardly surprising, especially considering no one in the “mainstream press” elected to deem that development newsworthy, consistent with their documented record of ignoring or misdirecting the Fast and Furious story. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes leave it to this administration to diss the memories of Gunwalker victims while purporting to honor all fallen officers.
Tired of the media’s lack of serious interest in addressing the explosive nature of the scandal, award-winning documentary maker Michael McNulty...decided it was time to take action.[More]The New American notices this.
It sure looks like a lot more people who say they're outraged and want to see the truth come out need to.
If you've ever been to Wasted Electrons World Headquarters, you know that my workshop out behind the house is my favorite portion of the property. It's my man-cave, my estrogen-free zone and it houses pretty much everything material that is important to me. My scooter and the Kawasaki live in there during the winter months- they are still in there due to my now healing injuries but they are in there for a few more days. My tools are in there as well as all my fishing gear and my guns. So the shop might not be fancy but it is important to me and I love being out there.
I could have lost it today except for divine intervention or a stroke of luck depending on your point of view. I went out to the shop and unlocked it this morning before leaving for work to get some tools out that I will need later today. As soon as I walked in, I discovered a power strip that has been a main source of power above the bench was sparking, smoking and trying to burst into flame! I quick pulled the plug out of the wall outlet and things calmed down quickly and disaster was averted.
But what would have happened if I just headed off on my happy way to work without going into the shop?...
by Jeff Knox
[Less than] 200 days away from what will undoubtedly be one of the most important elections in US history, and most of the country still isn't even paying attention yet. Of course, those of you reading this have been paying attention for years, even decades, but that's because you're all freaks and oddballs like me. At least that's what the majority thinks of us.
We prefer to think of ourselves as exceptional and concerned – responsible citizens, but they see us as demented political junkies lacking in real life. Any way you want to define us – those of us who pay attention to politics more than 60 days out from a major election are definitely a minority – about 20%. While that can be a bit disheartening, it also should be encouraging. Since 70% of potential voters are in the dark about politics, those of us in the 20% have an opportunity to leverage our knowledge to significantly influence the myopic majority. We have to understand that most of these people aren't ignorant because they don't care, but because they don't care enough to make it a priority in their daily lives. They want to vote for the best candidate, they just have been focused on othe...
Came across this lovely little story of a city manager getting caught red-handed at budgetary chicanery:
Lynn Overspends Snow Budget In Mild Winter
LYNN (CBS) – With such a mild winter, no one expected the city of Lynn to blow through its entire ice and snow removal budget.
But the Department of Public Works (DPW) ended up overspending by $138,165. The grand total ostensibly spent on snow removal for this winter wound up being $923,327. That’s well above the $785,162 the city had allocated.What floors me is that they're not even going to do an investigation. The city financial manager claims that this is "in the past" - the same argument my children make when I remind them that they are being punished for something that happened earlier in the week. It doesn't work for a 9 year old grounded for hitting her brother; the town manager for Lynn, MA thinks it works when a city manager misappropriates half...
Bloomberg has put a target on the Buckeye State.
Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a bipartisan coalition of more than 650 American mayors, announced today that 103 Ohio mayors have joined the coalition to fight crime in their communities by reducing the spread of illegal guns and preventing gun violence. The coalition believes much more can be done to keep guns out of the wrong hands…
Pennsylvania still has far more mayors than any other state, unfortunately. I believe we still have a perfect record of keeping his MAIG mayors from reaching higher office here in the Commonwealth. (I actually need to double check that now that the primary is over.) Looks like Ohio gun owners need to watch out for the same thing.
It happened at the Subway restaurant, 3200 N. Rock, around 11 a.m. Monday. Police said two teenagers, 15 and 16-year-old boys, walked into the building with their hands in their pockets, ordering everyone on the floor.
One of the suspects started counting people on the floor, while two other teenagers ran out of the restaurant, police said. The third teenager ran away a short time later. No one was hurt.
Assuming this is a prank. Talk about a quick way to end up with extra holes god didn't intend for you to have. Is there some type of idiot game going on that is under the radar? Just late last week there was the incident of the kid trying to rob a police station as a "prank".
Onc...
I just stumbled across the perfect example of what government does, exemplified in a single quote:
He's been improving the farm every day for the past 26 years, and all the sudden it's a problem. It reminds me of an incident some friends had after "remodeling" their restaurant. See, there was this crappy ugly board put up in the middle to separate the dining area and kitchen. Instead of leaving it, they ripped it out and actually put in a nice finished wall.
There were no structural or electrical changes involved in the change to the wall. The owner of the property was actually happy with the changes. The state however declared that their inspector must come in for y...
Go read the other details of the incident. This though was the most telling thing about the incident:
Because you're a bunch of authoritarian tyrants. He has pending litigation against your department so you proceeded to harass him and threaten him. Good job fellas on costing the tax payers even more, I just wish it came out of your pocket instead of the public's.
State Sponsored Criminal Count 331: John Doe
332: John Doe
Because the fact that the public can record us to hold us accountable is a serious problem and scourge. To battle this scour...
This guy makes REALLY neat videos. He has a fancy-pants air-rifle and uses it to dispatch various pest species. His earlier videos are just “Scope Cam” shots. Now he’s working a LOT more on composition.
Very neat when you think of how much wind drift and bullet drop happens with an air rifle pellet!
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A few days ago, David Codrea pointed out a dilemma for the administration: President Obama could hardly veto the Brian A. Terry Memorial Act, but if he signed it it'd be customary to hold a signing ceremony with Terry's next of kin, who had not been kind about Eric Holder's conduct in the matter.
The solution:
"On Tuesday, when Obama signed the bill into law, he did not hold a public signing ceremony with Terry’s family. The announcement that Obama had signed the memorial act into law was stuffed in the middle of a White House press release packed with other announcements not relevant to Terry.
The press release contained no quote from Obama or from White House press secretary Jay Carney about Terry."
It’s definitely my favorite Tim Conway clip. The fact that it was off the cuff makes it even better. But the icing on the cake is when the professional comedians can’t even keep their composure.
I need that *snorf* sound as a ringtone.
It can't be realistic policy - that requires a suspension of disbelief of epic proportions - and so the new World Wildlife Fund report can only be posturing among environmentalists. Certainly no western government can even begin to implement its proposals:
Analysis Extremist green campaigning group WWF - endorsed by no less a body than the European Space Agency - has stated that economic growth should be abandoned, that citizens of the world's wealthy nations should prepare for poverty and that all the human race's energy should be produced as renewable electricity within 38 years from now.
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But then we get onto the big stuff. First up, there must be an "immediate focus" on "drastically shrinking the ecological footprint of high income populations".
That means you, Reg reader: you are to accept a massively lower standard of living, in order to reduce your "footprint" to match your nation's "biocapacity". Then you'll have to take another cut, because your nation - being rich - has more "b...
and we have to do something about it!"
State Rep. Kathy Webb is seeking to have Arkansas declare a state of emergency due to people failing to scrape grease from their dishes or trap the grease in special grease collectors before washing the dishes in dishwashers or the kitchen sink.
Webb has submitted Interim Study Proposal 2011-201, an act “to declare an emergency” over the alleged crisis. Frying hamburgers is now The People’s Business of the Highest Order.
As they say, 'Guess which party she belongs to?"
And it's going to get worse. And those responsible will claim they had nothing to do with it.
"About 20 of us stayed to give statements and make sure everyone was accounted for. The police wouldn't listen to us, they wouldn't take our names or statements. They told us to leave. It was completely infuriating."
The police chief seemed determined to head off any suggestion that this was a racially motivated attack by saying that crime is colorblind. Other officials elsewhere have said similar things.
...
What the authorities and the media seem determined to suppress is that the hoodlum elements in many ghettos launch coordinated attacks on whites in public places. If there is anything worse than a one-sided race war, it is a two-sided race war, especially when one of t...
This guy wants you to keep track of duds.
for this crap? Really?
Are we supposed to believe our 'he's doing an exemplary job' AG Holder isn't involved in this(in between lying to Congress and covering-up on Gunwalker, that is)?
The new front sight is installed.
Slide as was:
I tried something before going drastic, did some careful file work to give the back of the blade more of a square profile and painted it; still just too small. So back to the vise(padded, of course) and file. Slide with front sight filed flush:
Then used a prick punch to very carefully mark the center of the former front sight, to gi...
the Preferred Narrativetm is falling apart. Further apart, I should say.
A medical report compiled by the family physician of accused Trayvon Martin murderer George Zimmerman and obtained exclusively by ABC News found that Zimmerman was diagnosed with a “closed fracture” of his nose, a pair of black eyes, two lacerations to the back of his head and a minor back injury the day after he fatally shot Martin during an alleged altercation.
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WFTV has confirmed that autopsy results show 17-year-old...
I don’t shop at Wal-Mart. It is my humble opinion that the Walton kids move these stores into communities with the intent of destroying local industry. Additionally, they tend to stock sub-standard products. I don’t feel like supporting such things. If they swung back to the original business model of stocking all U.S.-made products at a fair price, I would likely give them my business again. But, here‘s a reason not to patronize their stores that I had never considered. From the linked article:
A man said he reached down to pick up a stick lying in the gardening aisle of a Wal-Mart in Idaho, only to discover that it was a rattlesnake that then bit his hand.
Wow. I’ve never actually seen a live rattlesnake outside of a zoo. I’m not sure how I would react to being bitten by a rattlesnake in a warehouse store. I would pay money to have seen the look on the guy’s face when it happened. I have to imagine that it was a combination of pain, fear, and “WTF?!?!...
I dreamed an unusual apocalypse the other night. No explosions, no virulent disease.
Aliens had found our little blue planet in the vastness of space and, positioning themselves well outside the reach of our paltry technology, decided to begin siphoning off our oxygen. (I assumed there was some plan to simultaneously destroy vegetation) It was Earth they wanted, perhaps an obscure mineral, and forced hypoxia so easily removed obstacles.
But it wasn't happening all at once, no. There would be time enough to let yourself think that you had to make decisions about What to Do when, really, well...it was a quiet disaster, with nothing to be done.
I was out on the street, watching the main intersection fill with cars going nowhere. The wrong way, even. North, to the lake. Dead end. I looked at my companion, the one person who had been with me from the very beginning. We didn't speak and yet decided together to go home. There were cats there, and supplies enough to keep us comfortable. We'd cling to each other when the time came, like those that breathed their last in the ash of Vesuvius millenia before.
Outside, people did what they always do...
The comments on yesterday’s post about the EAA Witness Elite Stock II I’m running at Bianchi Cup have started an interesting discussion about the value of DA/SA guns vs. striker fired guns and the relative difficultly of adapting to a DA trigger pull and the potential for lost points vs. points gained.
The first thing to address is what the Tanfoglio is doing that’s good, which is producing out of the box accuracy that totally blows my mind. From a supported position, it shot a 0.86 inch group using Atlanta Arms .38 Super at 25 yards, which is definitely Bianchi Cup levels of accuracy. I can’t get any of the striker fired guns I have sitting around to perform like that without adding match barrels and custom tuning ammo for them. This is a factory gun with what is essentially factory ammo.
Addressing the DA trigger itself, there are two separate training is...
We broke this story here on Gun Nuts in April, and now Caracal has launched their official press release announcing JJ joining their team.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New Milford, NJ – Caracal International, a small arms manufacturer launched in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates in 2007, announced today that Simon “JJ” Racaza, one of the top Limited and Open shooters in USPSA and Steel Challenge, has joined Team Caracal as a sponsored Production Division shooter.
“My decision on which gun company I would shoot for was based on gun performance. I’ve been shooting a myriad of guns lately and it literally came down to running the guns side-by-side and figuring out the best hits and time,” says Racaza.
“When I officially made the decision to look for a sponsorship in the production division, I told myself that I wouldn’t sell my soul for the contract. I planned on going with the gun that I believed in the most. I’ve also always been a fan of representing a company who is still growing and has room for me to grow with them. I was fortunate enough to be ...
Bianchi Cup is a weird (but awesome) match, in that it’s a lot friendlier to certain types of gear than other sports/matches; at the same time having the “wrong” gear in certain areas will really mess you up. This year, I actually have one of the best rigs I’ve ever put together for the match in terms of gun, holster, belt, etc.
The Gun
My gun history at Bianchi Cup is a little sketchy, to say the least. I shot the match for the first time in 2009 with a Para Tac-5, which was the LDA version of their P18. A large, double stack 1911 in 9mm seems like a pretty good gun for Bianchi Cup, and in theory it would have been if it had run. The sights also left a bit to be desired, but the Tac-5′s biggest problem was that it just wasn’t that accurate. I missed the match in 2010 because of some reality TV show eating up all my vacation time, and then in 2011 I returned with a Sig Sauer P250, which honestly wasn’t that bad. It was plenty accurate, but the long DA only trigger stroke took some serious training and the sigh...
The new three book Monster Hunter collection is available from Baen in e-reader form for a whole $6. I'd been putting off getting them for my new Kindle and glad I did (I've already got two paper copies of each book... a signed one, and a "loaner" copy.)
On Weer'd World. I do like weird and ugly guns.
S.O. TECH has redesigned the Mission Pack, Micro Hydration (MP-MH) with an additional 1.5″ of depth and a covered hydration port. This adds some additional functionality to an already functional pack. The MP-MH is designed to ride high so it stays clear of anything carried on the belt line. It is large enough to carry [...]
My newest piece at National Review starts this way:
Would you hire President Obama as your financial adviser? Three years ago his administration invested more than $100 billion in taxpayer money to bail out General Motors. On Tuesday, the entire company, not just what the government owns, was worth less than $34 billion. By anyone’s definition, that investment is a glaring failure. Yet over the last few days the Obama campaign, in a $25 million marketing blitz, has flooded the airwaves with ads in battleground states, claiming the bailout should be counted a rousing success.
Unfortunately, assertions that “all loans have been repaid to the federal government,” that the bailout “saved more than one million American jobs,” that “U.S. automakers are hiring hundreds of thousands of new workers,” that GM is again the “number-one automaker” — all are based on creative accounting. . . .
Peter Ferrara's discussion of our new book at the American Spectator starts this way:
Obama has already succeeded in fundamentally transforming America, from a prosperous nation that draws people the world over, voting with their feet, to a rapidly declining former superpower on the fast track to a third-world status similar to Argentina or Venezuela. That is effectively what is argued by the new book ...
And Uncle Hugo’s has signed copies. http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/ah-correia-larry.php (you can also preorder signed copies of Monster Hunter Legion there too).
If you want an eBook for your Kindle, Nook, or eReader: http://www.baenebooks.com/p-1618-the-monster-hunters.aspx And that is only $6.
SIX DOLLARS for all 3 MH novels. That is HALF a CENT per PAGE!!!
I’m thinking about doing some sort of spread the word contest for this next week.
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Okay, I know absolutely nothing about the British Fantasy Awards, and the short list is rather long, and I have no idea who votes for these things, but just in case one of you voters reads this blog, there you go. 
EDIT: I’m the only Baen author on the list.
EDIT again: Actually it looks like there are only a handful of Americans on the list at all.
Final EDIT: Never mind, my Google-fu is weak. They have already released the final 6.
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Dan Greenfield describes the symbiotic relationship of three key manifestations of modernity.
Universalizing college has not universalized education; it has not made us a better educated country, only a dumber one. Universal education has led to dumbed-down education and meaningless degrees. The only way we could keep moving more and more students up the ladder was by making the ladder as short as possible. Promotion, populist education and educators who barely knew more than the students have taken care of the rest.A college degree was once a mark of distinction...
A blog in which I communicate my wonderment to the wider world. Contrary to the popular opinion of my other 36 personalities, I do NOT have a total handle on Life, and there ARE a few puzzlements left to me. Here are a few of them. WTF, category Irony: The Secret Service scandal was discovered when a disagreement on how...
Just because:
I can never watch that clip without laughing. Tim Conway's ad-libbing is hysterical.
Have a nice day!
An otherwise useless cat, as it happens.
And of course I have duct tape.
And a nagging electrical supply problem.
Hey, Click! C'mere a minute, wouldya?
Okay, I didn't know you could read glowing presidential bios on the whitehouse.gov site, because I don't recall ever going there before. But this morning, thanks to a plethora of sources, it seems those bios are now New! and Improved! thanks to the fine folks in the hope'n'change administration.
Example, at the bottom of the Reagan bio...
Did you know?
President Reagan designated Martin Luther King Jr. Day a national holiday; today the Obama Administration honors this tradition, with the First and Second Families participating in service projects on this day.
In a June 28, 1985 speech Reagan called for a fairer tax code, one where a multi-millionaire did not have a lower tax rate than his secretary. Today, President Obama is calling for the same with the Buffett Rule.
I haven't actu...
Which makes Beck a con artist, and not a very skillful one.
Think police and government authorities who want to disarm you have securing your blessings of Liberty in mind?
Think the ...
One man with a knife can prevail over four unarmed men. [Read]
I'll bet we could extrapolate from that.
Britain's military will be armed with a sonic device that can be used as a high-volume loudspeaker or a non-lethal weapon to disperse crowds at this summer's Olympic Games in London...[More]That speaks volumes.
The Second Amendment Foundation has filed a federal lawsuit against the police departments in San Francisco and Oakland, California for refusing to return firearms to people who had been charged with crimes, but subsequently cleared of any wrongdoing. [More]The thing is, monopoly of violence cultists consider gun ownership by any but the "Only Ones" to be "wrongdoing."
The other thing is, these lawsuits aren't cheap, and the precedents they establish benefit more than just the plaintiffs. Take a look at all the ones they're funding throughout the land as well as their past successes.
They could sure use a hand.
The Big Guy sends in the latest addition. All I can says is WOW.
Spokane County fatal shooting called self-defense
Doug Snarski knew someone was going to die when he realized his girlfriend's ex was inside their home early Sunday.The intruder, Sean Parsons, was armed with a shotgun, a handgun, a belt stocked with ammunition and yelling about how no one would be getting out of the house alive. Parsons had arrived at the Newman Lake home about 12:30 a.m. - just hours after he'd been served with a restraining order that prohibited him from going within two miles of the house.
- Restraining order against the intruder? Check.
- Intruder armed? Check.
- Intruder firing wildly in the house? Check.
Back on April 3, I noted that Obama's Unkie Alkie had received a hardship exemption to his whopping 45 day license suspension for driving under the influence - meaning that the actual time he was legally prohibited from driving was about the length of one of Brittany Spears's marriages.
Well, Libertyman points out that he's back driving around on a full legal license:
President Obama’s illegal-alien uncle is once again a fully legal Massachusetts driver, reclaiming his license this afternoon after serving a 45-day suspension he agreed to as part of a plea deal in a drunken-driving rap.Onyango Obama, 67, walked into the Registry of Motor Vehicles’ Worcester branch about 2:30 this afternoon and walked out moments later with a new license, according to RMV spokeswoman Sara Lavoie. Obama had been driving for about a month and a half on a hardship li...
Guns made from Legos. Apparently this is a controversial issue:
This is all true, but U.K. father Jon Trew brings up another important point: Could these toy guns confuse children into thinking it’s OK to play with real guns? “Whatever side of the argument you are on, no one in their right mind would want encourage children to play with realistic models just in case they came across a real one and thought they could play with it in the same way,” Trew says.
With several centuries of young kids playing with toy guns, it’s amazing the human race has survived! Maybe it’s not so much the barbarians at the gates that make civilization’s fall, but the civilized people inside them. Kids that learn proper use and respect for firearms eventually become people who can man the gates when barbarians come knocking. It’s the people who wish to beat every martial instinct out of humankind are the ones who fell civilizations.
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A bit of propaganda from the Veterans Administration, encouraging family members to take guns away from veterans who have served our country. It’s worth noting that the Brady Campaign is fully on board with disarming our country’s veterans of their firearms, some of which would be bring backs that were paid for in their blood, and the blood of their fellow soldiers.
To me this is much like the issue of pediatricians and guns with children in the house. I don’t, as a matter of absolute principle, think it’s wrong to have the discussion. It’s the way the discussion is framed that is problematic. Certainly a family who has a loved one suffering from severe Dementia, or that has mental difficulties that make him a danger to themselves or others, would be doing the responsible thing by removing firearms (and other dangerous objects) from the home. I also don’t have an issue with the VA advising families of this, along with a discu...
I am reminded of my late interaction with our opponents, of a paper written a few years ago by Dave Kopel, who borrows the term “Pacifist-Agressive” from Eugene Volokh. The paper examines, in length and in detail, of the roots of the pacifist movement, and offers some great examples of pacifisms successes and its failures. Also discussed a length are the intellectual failings underlying much of modern pacifism, which, whether CSGV wants to admit or not, form the intellectual basis of the many of the religious-left organizations that make up CSGV. I highly encourage folks to take some time to read it. It directly speaks on the matter of pacifisms failings on the “What would you do about Hitler?” question.
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So, the Obama administration mandates that insurance covers abortions and contraceptives. And they increased coverage to $100K. So, a Catholic school drops all student insurance.
Shocking.
Via PopeHat, and I apparently wasn’t told it was blog like instapundit day.
The Onion Brings the LOLz
Woke up this morning feeling like Holy Hell.
Gonna sit this one out.
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First and foremost, a huge thank you goes out to SayUncle. I couldn’t possibly have dreamed of the amount of traffic my humble blog would get for being mentioned once by him. Thanks a bunch.
It seems that the ammo gods have actually looked upon us pathetic followers of the .32acp with compassion. While perusing the Kel-Tec Owner’s Group (KTOG) forum, I ran across this thread.
As any owner of a .32acp pistol can tell you, there are several problems with trying to use one as a defensive tool. And no, I’m not going to flay the deceased equine with the old “9mm/.380acp is the bare minimum for defensive use” line. I am talking about the lack of good quality ammo offered that will, 1) Leave the barrel of a mousegun at ~1000fps and, 2) Expand reliably. Another reason it can be hard to use the .32acp in a defensive role is the fact that the cartridge itself is semi-rimmed. Using JHPs that have a shorter overall length than FMJs can lead to a catastrophic malfunction called ...
If you’re like me, then you love classic and historical firearms. I firmly believe that WWII brought us the best firearms in terms of beauty coupled with innovation. After all, necessity is the mother of invention. There is just something that speaks to me about the warm wood and cold steel of an M-1 Garand. When you pick one up, you know you are holding a quality made precision instrument of war. It warms the soul. I’m not saying that I limit myself to these kinds of weapons, on the contrary I don’t own anything that I would call historic save for my S&W knockoff of a Walther PPK/S…. yet. All my guns are purchased for a perceived need and until those needs are met, I will not buy any of the ones that I really long for. You see, my humble arsenal is still growing, low paying military job coupled with wife-n-kids sorta does that to a guy. Truth be told, my collection will never be complete, there will always be something else out there that I want, be it rare, old, new, or just plain nifty. As with any item that you would look upon with greatness, one tends to soak up all that they can about said item. I remember a time when I was maybe 15-1...
Ok guys, time for a sea story. Unfortunately, these aren’t going to be WWII diesel boat stories, I’ve only got 8 years in and I’m not that salty. I was reminded of this incident as I was making lunch for my son and myself. As any good father would, I have instilled a deep love for bacon in the boy. So naturally, when I told him I was gonna make burgers for lunch, his automatic response was, “You’re gonna put bacon on them, right?” That’s my boy. Out comes the bacon, and as the delectable smells are wafting up from the sizzling skillet, I remembered a time underway when we ran out of this very precious commodity. We were gearing up for a change of homeport from Rotten Groton, CT to the paradise of Pearl Harbor. To do this, we were going up under the polar ice cap and come down through the Bearing sea. Kind of a long trip, we had lots of toys to test out while we were up there on top of the world. This meant lots of food to take with us. Therein lies the cause of our Loss of Bacon casualty. On submarines, even the relatively larger Nuclear fast boats out there these days, there is no extra room. Everything on there has a purpo...
If it takes you longer than 5 seconds, you fail. Epic fail.
Dive! Dive!
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So in between strings at the monthly steel match in Escondido last Saturday, I got to chewing the fat with a Jar Head stationed out of Miramar, just north of me here in San Diego. I always love to talk to actual combat soldiers. It makes me like my job a little more, due to the fact that I don’t get shot at. All I have to worry about is keeping a nuclear propulsion plant running so that we don’t sink to the bottom and get crushed like the soda-can-bunsen-burner-ice-water science experiment we all did in school. No biggie. On the other hand, talking to “ground pounders” and “bullet sponges” as we in the Navy call them, I also get the feeling that I’m in the wrong branch sometimes. I like guns, I’m good with them, I feel like I could put that knowledge and experience to better use. Anywho, he brought up that the USMC was going away from the SAW to the new M27 IAR. He also said that they are a lot of fun and a helluva lot easier to lug around than its Belgium made counterpart. I did some more digging and was un-impressed at first. First glances showed that it looks like a beefed up AR, but in actuality it is a modified HK416....
Well, the first post is out of the way and the proverbial cherry has been popped. Throughout the course of this blog, I will be reviewing and discussing some of my personally owned weapons, complete with pictures of course. Unfortunately, at this very moment in time, I am at work and unable to do a whole heck of a lot for the blog. That is, until I remembered that I had already done a review a while back in aught-nine on one of my most beloved pistols. That is my Walther P22. I actually made an audio recording (I can’t stand the sound of my own recorded voice) and submitted it to Mark Vanderberg over at the Gunreviewpodcast. Before I throw this link out to yall and totally ruin my chances of ever having repeat customers, let me take a moment to plug the Gun Rights Radio Network(GRRN). Mark Vanderberg does an outstanding job running this website which is complete with a slew of podcasts and forums. The GRRN has podcasts from well known gun gurus such as Massad Ayoob, and even not so well known guys like The Gundudes(take everything these guys say with a grain of salt followed by heavy doses of alcohol to destroy the rest of your brain cells that they didn’t ge...
Greetings to all 6 of you that might happen upon this blog, even though you probably wound up here by mistake. To start off, let me give you an idea of what this blog is going to be about: Mostly guns, a little humor (which is pretty bad, just ask my wife), and tales of the high seas life under several hundred feet of water, and probably some of my smaller hobbies like knife making, camping, hiking, and fishing. Again, welcome one and all, and thanks for stopping by, but most importantly you stay classy.
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In case you didn't know, Sarkozy got voted out in France earlier this month and they elected a hardline socialist whose answer to France's economic crisis looks like Obama's wet dream. He wants to rollback what little austerity there was, increase all government spending, and impose a 75% tax on the rich.
Yes folks, French voters want this guy to "fix" their economy. With Socialism. This is why history repeats itself, why the dreams of Communism are omnipresent, and why hundreds of millions of people continue to die for the dream that government can make everyone "equal"
It's insanity, but then put us in France's position. I bet the American electorate would do the same thing. They'd vote for the guy telling them everything was going to be OK, making them promises for free shit etc. etc. The guy who was trying to tell the truth about the hard fiscal realities and implement the only rational measures possible in the face of crisis? Oh, he'd be thrown out as a heretic.
It's not just France and Greece. Like Obama and our Liberals, the whole of the EU has been having a collective Keynesian orgasm of la...
Geoff is one of those people who likes to cram himself and 100 of his friends into a tiny cylinder and then see how far underwater he can go. And he likes guns. So, let’s all give him a warm welcome (when he comes up for air) at http://bubbleheadgunnut.wordpress.com/
Are the goalposts being moved once again
The day after he killed Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman showed up at a doctor’s office with a broken nose, two black eyes and two small cuts on the back of his head, ABC News reported Tuesday.
According to medical records obtained by the network, he also had a minor back injury.
(emphasis mine)
Oh, and the Choir Boy? Damaged knuckles. Almost like things played out exactly as Zimmerman said they did. But those are facts, and facts are not things people with an agenda care about. There are still people on Twitter and Facebook trying to deflect this information and pin Zimmerman as some sort of KKK Grand Beagle who hunted down innocent black children. They can’t let go because they’ve invested their very souls in some stranger, requiring him to be a perfect angel stalked and brutally murdered by a crazed racist. Whe...
I’ve got a new meme for you.
What is the most fun firearm you own and why? Which boomstick puts a smile on your face every time you take it to the range? If you have another gunnie coming over, which piece from your armory to you ensure you pack in the bag to show off?
Mine is almost cliché – It’s the KRISS. Most people seem to enjoy its exotic looks and when they shoot it, they’re impressed with its total lack of recoil and minimal muzzle rise. It’s just a neat gun.
The next in line would be the Dan Wesson Model 15 with my Sound & Fury Loads (patent pending). There’s something exciting about lighting off a massive, concussive fireball from a revolver and not have to worry about it leaping out of your hands and giving you a new forehead dimple.
What about you? What’s your funnest gun?
I don’t do much with Twitter. My humor is situational and most of the jokes you see here on the blog are stream-of-conscious; They show up while I’m typing. The one thing I don’t do well are one liners. Sure, I pull one off every here and there but generally my humor revolves around verbosity. I wear you down with words then throw in a joke that you only laugh at because you’ve been numbed by my lack of brevity.
Another thing about Twitter is it’s 140 characters. Great for getting out important messages like “I’M POOPING!”, not so hot when you want to have a real discussion which is why I also avoid following the anti’s. There’s very little information I can divulge in such a small amount of space and thus arguments are reduced to competing bumper stickers.
Every here and there though, you get all the information you could ever ask for. Go read.
Some of these idiots truly believe this. Being that most of these groups are nothing more than progressive mouthpieces, I have a feeling that should the Theocratic Wing of the Republican Part...
After dropping off the Broad Ripple SUV at the Bicycle Exchange, Bobbi and I headed down into Broad Ripple proper for lunch at Plump's Last Shot, a local institution at which I had somehow failed to dine so far.
She pedaled down the Monon and I took the Zed Drei and we met in the parking lot. It was a beautimous day for dining al fresco, and she ordered the signature pork tenderloin sandwich, which is a breaded piece of pork tenderloin approximately the size of a legal pad, served between two hamburger buns that are barely adequate as handles. I ordered a culinary delight known as a "Butler Dog": A beef frank wrapped in bacon, deep fried, and served on a bun piled with tomatoes, onions, and sliced jalapeños. My left arm hurts just thinking about it.
I can straighten the handlebars on my Broad Ripple SUV. I can lube the chain. I can track down and patch the leak in the front tube, or replace it as necessary. I can adjust the brakes.
But when you add all those chores together, plus trying to figure out whether that front rim is bent or not, just taking it to the new bike shop around the corner and saying "Dudes, give this thing a tune-up," gets mighty attractive. Especially because I want it in good shape for pedaling to the Arts Festival this weekend and there's no way I could even begin procrastinating between now and then. (Plus, you know, I can rationalize it as supporting a local business.)
Blog later.
Sigh. Well, this is embarrassing. Old security-conscious me got my Twitter account hacked. More later when I figure out exactly how I stumbled into that. (Started with a perfectly innocuous direct message from someone I follow — which of course wasn’t actually from that person.) But if you follow me on Twitter, know that I’m [...]
Apparently, news of the demise of the Tea Party is premature. According to the Leftists, the Tea Party was deader than the moribund Occupy movement. Then the Tea Party got up and walked around and ate Dick Lugar's brains.
Now I'm not sure how I feel... A lot of Tea Partiers are 2nd Amendment types. Zombies with guns? I'd rather have Sprinters...
You mean that one calendar was a mistake and that the Mayans don't really think the world is going to end in December 2012?
DANGIT!
In other, unrelated the world ending, news... Anyone wanna buy a whole bunch of extra canned goods?
This is a very famous Model 29, one of the guns used in DIRTY HARRY. It was all scarred up from being slid down a sidewalk, then refinished by S&W and presented by Clint Eastwood and Warner Brothers to John Milius, the screenwriter for DIRTY HARRY and MAGNUM FORCE. Here's Joe at work with the same gun: And Dan Ramm, who works with Joe and is a producer on both GUN STORIES and SHOOTING
Via Theo.
From Your Teacher Said WHAT?!:
The desire to regulate economic life might be the defining characteristic of Progressive philosophy. It combines a mistrust of the free market in allocating resources; an appeal to a vague and indefinable virtue ("fairness"); a desire to achieve perfection in economic outcomes; a deference to experts over the judgement of ordinary folks; and, best of all, a chance to tell other people what to do. Oh, heck, let's just say it: Regulation is progressivism.From Chapter 10, June 2010: 99.985 Percent Pure: The Price of Regulation
It is also the perfect way to illustrate just how much Progressive thinking depends on treating adults like kids.
Wayne County Worker Fired after Finding Gun on the Job [More]He should have redeemed that piece of junk at a "buyback". No questions asked.
Pretty nice gig otherwise, though, getting a retirement package at his age. Public "service" sure dispenses benefits most private wealth-generating enterprises would be hard-put to offer. Sounds to me like there's more going on here. Between bureaucrats and public employee unions, I don't see a dog in this fight I really want to win.
“The filibuster is exactly that — it’s a rule that’s crippled our system of government. Undocumented youth, perhaps like no other group, understands about the legislative process,” said Caesar Vargas, an illegal immigrant who went through college and law school and could benefit from the Dream Act legalization bill. “We have lived it; we have shed tears for it. And we have seen a minority able to cripple dreams.” [More]"Our system."
Hit it, Shirley...
It appears to me, from the above mentioned Papers, that the said ship Flora is not a good Prize, the same belonging to the Subjects of a Neutral Nation: But that the Cargo is really the property of the Subjects of the King of England tho' attempted to be masqu'd as neutral. [More]
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