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Using Flickr’s support-by-email feature, I asked why Photo Mule was not listed in the App Garden when you search for Android.

Hello,
I have tagged my application, Photo Mule, with android; it mentions android everywhere possible in the app page itself.

http://www.flickr.com/services/apps/72157624699535295/

however, when I search for android apps, I’m not listed in the results, the recent apps, or anywhere:

http://www.flickr.com/services/apps/search/?q=android&w=applications

what must I do to get listed?

Ry Jones
Photo Mule

the answer?

Hello Ry,

Thank you for contacting Flickr Customer Care.

I am very sorry for the trouble. Im afraid the tool you’re using is a 3rd party application and we can’t offer any support for it. Please contact the developer of that application for help.

If you have any other questions, please feel free to reply to this email.

Thank you again f...

In 2006, angry voters turned Congress over to the democrats.  Two years later, the White House to Obama.  What has happened since?

Now, what should we DO about it?

Tuesday at 9:30 AM EDT I will be on Fox News' Strategy Room. We will discuss my pieces "Obama Is Repeating the Mistakes of the 1937 Economic Collapse" and "More Bad Economic News, Yet Here Comes ANOTHER Wall Street Bailout."

Tuesday at 3:35 PM EDT I will be on Lou Dobb's radio show to talk about my piece on Obama and illegal immigration.

Talking to Brian Sussman on KSFO on FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, at 11:15AM Eastern time.

The government will apparently own part of GM for three more years. These guys don't seem to understand how prices work. The current price is the future expected price of the stock. The government might hope that future stock prices will rise, but they are losing money on the current sale and that means that future prices will have to rise by enough to make up those losses. As to the claim that the Obama administration is selling off the stock as quickly as possible, that is false. If they wanted to, they would sell it off all at once. Doing that would also help the stock price as political meddling with business decisions is surely helping to depress the stock.

The U.S. government is likely to take a loss on General Motors Co [GM.UL] in the first offering of the automaker's stock, six people familiar with preparations for the landmark IPO said.

Subsequent offerings of the government's holdings may be profitable depending on how investors trade the newly listed stock, the sources said.

But the question of whether taxpayers are ultimately made whole on GM's $50 billio...

The story in this article of a man almost driven to ruin by his ex-wife abusing these violence against women statutes is pretty disturbing. What is almost hard to believe is that violence against women is defined in terms such as "getting annoyed," “withholding information from the victim,” and even “disregarding what the victim wants.”

The Violence Against Women Act, passed during the first term of the Clinton administration, includes a definition of domestic violence that is so wide you could drive a Mack truck through it.

States picked up on the loophole, and now most states include within their definitions of abuse, actions like making your partner “annoyed” or “distressed.”

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) likewise followed suit. The CDC’s Uniform Definitions and Recommended Data Elements declares that partner violence includes “getting annoyed if the victim disagrees,” “withholding information from the victim,” and even “disregarding what the victim wants.” . . . No proof of viol...

Well so much for the "quiet weekend". I'll be on the road for the next week at least. I do have some posts saved up for such occasions, so please check back. I'm not sure if I will be able to post comments timely, but I will be reading. For this Friday, and the "I have NO idea what time zone my body clock is going to be in" a little HOTR Friday Pet Follies.---------You've all seen those dog

Digged, dug, dang it's done. Photos to follow tomorrow. I'm a sore puppy, mostly from shoveling two grades of rock and a grade of soil. Many, many shovelfuls. Flexeril and hot tub, and off to the land of nod I go. Kudos to the fandamily for pitching in, esp. the Engineer, son-in-law Wally, who thought he was going to get...

...who wrote the Book of Fail? We get surrounded by Fail on a daily basis, and we don't even know who wrote that Book.

Speechless

Just a few minutes ago, someone was directed to my Failure to Communicate essay by plugging the following (verbatim!) into ask.com:

Thomas Sowell Theories is his theories idea or detrimental to society

Mouth hangs agape.

Small Wars Journal brings us the Friday Night North Korean People's Army Get Down Get Funky Juche Ideal Party...

And I thought I hated disco back in the '70's...

Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow have written a sequel to Hawking's Book, A Brief History of Time(Has it really been 20 years since History was published?) The new book, entitled The Grand Designpromises to be just as good. Here is what Dr. Hawking has to say.In The Grand Design we explain why, according to quantum theory, the cosmos does not have just a single existence, or history, but

Impolitic as it is to admit, it is a rare murderer indeed who has their very first meeting with the police over a still-cooling corpse.

In the comments to my "The water's off" post, Arthur put a link to this article on using calcium hypochlorite to treat water.

Handy thing to know.

Also, Insty linked to this "How I got prepared" article, good reading.

This is by far the HARDEST sight change I’ve ever done. The front sight on the Eclipse Pro II is so hard to remove, it’s even harder than the XDm’s front sight. It took me a hour of banging and hammering with a steel punch with some Liquid Wrench to remove it. Ugh!

 

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This article here is definitely worth reading.

I think I've said everything here that Cracked says here.  Without getting paid for it.  h/t... Somebody.  Forgot who.  Sorry.

The Big Brown Truck Of Happiness arrived today with my latest shipment from Rock River Arms. In addition to the buttstock/buffer, I also ordered a selection of magazines to see what I liked.

I ordered the Milspec Tactical CAR Buttstock, which is simply a standard M4-style collapsable stock. The install was very straightforward and simple. I followed the Brownells instructions, but opted for blue Loctite on the buffer tube threads instead of staking the castle nut. I got to use my AR-15 Armorer's wrench...

“Sit back and take a real hard look.”

from BulletPeople.com h/t The Blaze (Glenn Beck’s new web digs) ...

At Iowahawk

Urban Plight: Vanishing Upward Mobility — The American, A Magazine of Ideas Cities were once the place to go to get a leg up on life. Low cost housing, but not horrible housing, jobs in walking distance at the mill or factory. But that changed a long time ago. Those blue collar jobs are gone, for the most part, mostly overseas, but definitely out of the city. The schools by and large don't

Good.

Bargaining committees of the unions representing Harley-Davidson employees in Milwaukee and Tomahawk have unanimously recommended approval of a labor contract that would save about 1,700 Wisconsin jobs at the motorcycle manufacturer.

Union employees in Milwaukee will get details of the proposed contract on Tuesday, company and union sources said Friday.

Tomahawk employees will get the details of their proposed contract on Wednesday.

The contract offers would be voted on Sept. 13 by Harley-Davidson employees in Milwaukee and Tomahawk.

If ratified by the memberships of the United Steelworkers of America and the Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, the new contracts would take effect in April 2012 when the current contracts expire.

Thus far, company and union officials have not disclosed terms of the proposed contract.

As I’ve said in the past, I don’t think that Harley’s problems are exclusively the fault of the union.  But given that they are in an industry that is more susceptible than...

Argh.

Madison - A federal appeals court Friday revived Wisconsin’s controversial minimum markup law on gasoline sales after a lower court last year blocked enforcement of it.

The decision means the 1939 law aimed at protecting small-time gas station operators will once again be enforced in the state. Many mom-and-pop operators have said the law prevents them from being run out of business by companies that could sell gas at or below cost.

But opponents of the law - including some small shops - have maintained it stifles competition and costs drivers an extra 1 to 8 cents a gallon.

In February 2009, Chief U.S. District Judge Rudolph Randa in Milwaukee froze enforcement of the Wisconsin law, ruling that it violated the federal Sherman Act, an antitrust law that bars restraint of trade between states.

State Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, a Republican, then decided not to appeal the federal court’s decision. Gov. Jim Doyle, a Democrat, also supported leaving the law dead - an illustration of the unusual way the intensely contested is...

A familiar refrain amongst anti-rights nuts is that firearm registrations, requiring people to go through FFLs in order to perform any kind of firearm transfers, and requiring the associated background check for all of those transfers could never cause problems for people with no criminal record, people who are strictly law-abiding, and people who have done nothing wrong – namely, the vast majority of the firearm owners out there.

It would appear as though the only reasonable response to such suggestions is, “O RLY?“:

My daughter gave her daddy a gun for his birthday. As a law-abiding citizen he went to transfer ownership. Ten days later a letter arrived from the Department of Justice — transfer denied, stated my husband is a felon and he can’t have fire arms. Shock: He knew he was not a felon, had bought and registered guns for years, and now that department states that he is a felon since 1972 and can’t have any guns.

Over the course of one, possibly two months (it is not entire...

And especially minorities. You might almost say that it's objectively racist:

• Drug War. At Volokh, Ilya Somin links to John McWhorter reminding us that The War on Drugs is HUGE here:

  The War on Drugs destroys black families. It has become a norm for black children to grow up with their fathers in prison and barely knowing them

Aretae is waxing eloquent on how the Progressive Agenda is producing the opposite result from what its (ostensible) goals are. And his final paragraph does a pretty decent job of describing my position as well:

The reason I identify as a left libertarian now is that I think the leftists have the right goals. Protect the poor. It's just that the actual impact of leftist policy is to make things worse for the poor, and better for the rich. I propose, instead, doing stuff that...

It looks pretty good, too:

Here's the Internet Explorer variant:


Both of these new attacks have a link that leads you to...

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For my readers in the great state of Washington – this weekend I’ll be at Norpoint Tactical Training Center in Arlington, WA getting people signed up to help with the 2010 Election here in Washington.  See that awesome yard sign?  I’ll have a limited supply of them with me, so make sure you stop by tomorrow from 10am-9pm or Sunday 11am-8pm to sign up and get involved!  Or you can just get a free target and a free button, but if you’re like me, maybe you’re tired of the politicians in DC ignoring you and trying to stomp on your right to keep and bear arms.  If you are tired of it, now’s your chance to do something about it.  Come see me this weekend at Norpoint, or if you’re a Washington resident and can’t make it, email me about how to get involved!

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It's Friday afternoon, and KeeWee and I are off to Yakima for the Steel Challenge Yakima Fall Classic, eight stages of steel fun! After the match we're driving back home, arriving Saturday evening. On Sunday KeeWee and I will be driving to Arlington, Washington to an indoor gun range to give Caleb a hand running a NRA booth for the day. On Wednesday we're off to Reno for the Gun Blogger Rendezvous.

Will post when and as I can............................

Milady's brother lives in South Florida. Pampano Beach to be more precise. He's coming up this weekend to visit his Mamma in Jena, but there's always a side trip.

No one loves oysters more than Brother Bill and he claims that you can't get good oysters in Florida. Lots of good seafood, but no good oysters. So, Brother Bill stops in New Orleans on every trip to Louisiana and spends a couple of days wandering the French Quarter and eating oysters.

So, Milady and I are leaving in the morning, heading to the Big Easy. We're staying at a nice place on Canal Street, directly across from the casino, within easy walking distance of most of the French Quarter. We'll be wandering the streets, watching the crowds, eating seafood and we'll probably even stop at Pat's for a Hurricane. I like eating at Felix's, but several people this week have told me that they're closed. The website is still active, but if Felix isn't open, Acme is just across the street.

Quote of the Day - Education Edition

Zombie agrees with me:

The media and public schools were correctly identified by Gramsci as the most influential cultural institutions, and it was therefore those that the left realized must be targeted.

It is this sophisticated Gramscian plan, and not the more brutish Marxist idea of simply seizing power by force, which has guided leftist thought in America since WWII. And it is why the media and education have, over time, been slowly turned into engines of leftist propaganda. Gramscianism matured into “critical pedagogy” which is the real-world application of his educational theories, and countless left-leaning young adults have for decades been nudged toward careers in education and the media. Some time ago, we crossed a threshold in which the Gramscian infiltrators no longer had to ply their trade surreptitiously, but became the majority in the media and in education, and after that po...

Obama’s treason, that is.

Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, General James T. Conway on Obama’s deadline for pulling troops out of Afghanistan.

we think right now it’s probably giving our enemy sustenance. We think that he may be saying to himself — in fact, we’ve intercepted communications that say, hey, you know, we only have to hold out for so long.

Magic incantation follows: Not a doctor, not your doctor, not dispensing medical advice. Before the use of any medical information that I’ve aggregated on my site, you agree to review that information with a real doctor before acting on that information. (end incantation)

It looks like the FDA is adding protection against H1N1 in the 2010-2011 seasonal flu vaccine.

Every year, there’s a new crapshoot to guess which influenza strains are going to be “popular” during this year’s season. Then they try to pick three or so viruses to make the vaccine from. While the influenza virus mutates rapidly, there is some cross immunization between strains, at least in theory.

Can the seasonal flu vaccine provide protection against other seasonal flu viruses even if the vaccine is not a “good” match?

Yes, ant...

FMC is showing the Richard Egan "classic" The 300 Spartans right now.

It might be interesting to watch this and The 300 back to back, and score them on accuracy, or lack of same.

In many cases, you would get "offsetting fouls", i.e., Spartans in Roman armor versus Spartans in leather speedos.  Horse-mounted cavalry versus rhinoceroseseses...

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Once the wave of relief at the possibility that the GOP may have actually LEARNED something from the TEA party is over, this is pretty fucking cheesy. Found it at HotAir, where they linked to an MSNBC show where one of the pundits said it looked like something the daily show would do, and goddamnit, he's right.

The whole thing shows the personality gap the GOP has with the country. Their economic ideas are evergreen, and will always stand on their own, but for god's sake, get some more new blood in there! Even during my first viewing, through the excitement of the idea, I still had to chuckle at how hokey the whole thing was.

Hey GOP; find whoever produce...

You won’t see this on Top Shot. Pretty amazing stuff.

Well, damn, make this thing extendable, and we will be living in science fiction once again. A laser, LED light, impact points, pressure points, and some whizbang “non-invasive neuromuscular incapacitation” system (which boils down to “slightly-less-pokey Taser”, I think), all rolled up into one device… with an all-too-tactical rail, in case you have desire for yet another accessory (like, say, an even-more-lethal weapon). Sounds like the mother of all less-lethal short-range force-multiplying tools, but I have to wonder if you reach a point of cornucopic overload… it would suck to want the NINMI zapper, but push the button for the laser, or vice versa.

(Courtesy of Soldier Systems.)

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Remember that uber-powerful handheld laser that everyone was losing their collective gos-se over, either in a rush to ban it, or in a rush to buy it?

Turns out, not so uber after all.

Well. That is rather disappointing. I guess it was too much to ask for a laser that could ignite squirrels across my yard…

Paul Valone makes some observations about how the governor's office, having declared an emergency, is trying to side-step on the State law that forbids carrying of a firearm after such an emergency is declared.

Story here.

Now I have to clean guns.

Well, not really "have to", I guess, but I should. At least I feel like I should.

I mean, the Para gets cleaned every few months whether it needs it or not, but this makes probably 600+ rounds through the carbine (not counting rimfire) without anything more than squirting more lube on the bolt carrier group.

I should at least take them apart and wipe the excess cack off them.

Anybody know where to find bullets or a mold for .45 Colt for a 220-250 grain hollow-base wadcutter? The only thing similar I can find for .455 is the RCBS, which is 250 grains but has a long round nose. Lots of .45 wadcutters and semi, but no hollow-base.

though I didn't get to fire it: Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver. Yes, 'auto revolver'. See those zig-zag tracks machined in the cylinder? When you fire the upper receiver slides back on the lower and both cocks the hammer and rotates the cylinder to bring the next chamber into battery. That lever at the top of the grip is the safety; it was intended that you could carry it cocked & locked(though I have no idea how solid the safety was).

Good history of it and 'how it works' at the link. I'll say take the Webley Mark VI, make it taller and you've got an idea how it feels. And cocking the hammer does nothing but; to ro...

I might have picked a title like: "What Milton Friedman Knew about the 1937-38 Collapse." But, in any case, my newest piece starts of this way.

Does the 1937-38 economic collapse, the so-called "depression within the Depression" offer any lessons on what we should do now? In 1937, it seemed that things were improving, some light was seen in the Great Depression, but unemployment suddenly jumped from 14.3 percent in June 1937 to 19 percent in June 1938. With the unemployment rate stuck at 9.6 percent, the Obama administration is planning to unveil what would be its third stimulus package. Supporters are pointing to the late 1930s to justify yet another increase government spending.

Today Keynesians are out in full force defending the massive $1.3 plus trillion deficit that we have run since Obama became president, warning that cutting it would lead to a scenario similar to what we saw in the late 30s.

Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, has this to say in The Times earlier this summer, decl...

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Just getting ready for the Zombie Apocalypse...

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Or dial (805) 309-2350 (same access code)

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Paul Valone/Charlotte:
Is Governor Perdue lying about North Carolina State of Emergency?

Anthony Bouchard/Cheyenne:
Governor Freudenthal pardons close friend, former District Attorney Kevin Meenan

Sean McClanahan/Des Moines:
Hurricane Earl blows in - North Carolina blows away gun rights

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
Guns in restaurants revisited (again)

Dave Workman/Se...

TeaPartyTracker.org, a joint venture of the NAACP, Think Progess, Media Matters and New Left media, offer this photo from the Glenn Beck rally as an example of racist "Tea Party extremism."


What they don't explore is whether or not the man's message is true. Shall we see?

BBC:

Slavery persists in parts of Mauritania even though it was banned in 1981...Human rights groups say despite official denials the practice continues and is widespread.

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For the Gun Rights Policy Conference this month. Gays, Lesbians and Guns - Oh MyWelcoming the GRPC to their hometown of San Francisco will be members of the Pink Pistols, a rights and training organization dedicated to spreading the gun rights and self-defense message among gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and the transgendered. Members of the Pink Pistols have been regulars at GRPC for years. Not

This one might be a little tough.  It has an important significance from something that happened there between about 1,000 AD and 1,900 AD (how’s that for narrowing it down) and a somewhat important significance during the 20th century. 

My husband is a 4th-grade teacher.  He’s good at his job, he enjoys it, and he comes home every single day with a funny story (i.e. “Kids Say the Darnedest Things!”).  He told me this one last night, and I realized that I just had to share.

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On Monday, just before lunch, JB was going over something having to do with Social Studies, and the question of WWII came up.

Specifically, one of the children asked, “What happened in WWII?  Why did it start?”

JB has his BA in History, and WWII/Hitler was his main topic of study.  He looked at the clock, realized he had 5 minutes before lunch, and proceeded to give a wham-bam-Li’l Hitler demonstration, pulling and pushing the desks around in what was approximately the quickest game of Risk ever.

In the end, the kids understood that greed sucked, and that a certain country [*cough*Germany*cough*] needed to keep its mitts to itself.

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Yesterday, they began to talk about Geography more in-depth.  As part of the lesson, JB had the following fill-in-the-blank sentence on a worksheet the ...

Over the last few months on my twice monthly visits to Idaho there has been a bunch of wind turbines being erected near the Rye Grass rest area on I-90. When Barb came west on Tuesday of this week to visit me in my bunker she told me she stopped and took pictures of the turbines. “They look like something out of a science fiction movie”, she said.

Wow! It just so happens that on my return trip last Sunday I also took some pictures:

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In his 99-page article, Professor Bogus reviews wide-ranging evidence including an analysis of Madison's original language and an understanding of how he and other founders drew on England's Declaration of Rights. Madison's concern, Professor Bogus concludes, was not hunting, self-defense, national defense, or resistance to governmental tyranny but slave control.

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During the panel discussion, all three experts said that "The Hidden History" has dramatic implications for the contemporary debate over gun control. Rather than applying to individual gun ownership, the three agreed, the Second Amendment is rooted in the political battle over control of militia forces and ratification of the Constitution. This history, which has been endorsed by the U.S. Supreme Court, is often ignored by modern day pro-gun lobbyists.

Violence Policy Center
Second Amendment Rooted in Southern States' Control of Slavery, Academic Experts Say
May 15, 1998
[Odd isn’t it? This “...

You are responsible for every bullet that leaves your muzzle.

Anything you hit, you just bought, so make sure you can afford it.

Every bullet comes with a lawyer attached.

4. Identify your target, and what is behind it.

No matter how you want to phrase it, don't ever ever forget it.

Via Theo.

to decide who's ALLOWED to own what?
My daughter gave her daddy a gun for his birthday. As a law-abiding citizen he went to transfer ownership. Ten days later a letter arrived from the Department of Justice — transfer denied, stated my husband is a felon and he can’t have fire arms. Shock: He knew he was not a felon, had bought and registered guns for years, and now that department states that he is a felon since 1972 and can’t have any guns.

My husband called the Department of Justice. No, they could not tell him what his crime was or anything about it. They could only talk to him about it if he brought up what the crime was first. As he did not know what his crime was, he could not tell them and they refused to give him any information. Their answer was he would have to go to the police department and pay to have a Live Scan or copy of his record done. He did that. Three we...

Meet Eddie York. He was a workingman whose story will never scroll across Obama’s teleprompter. A nonunion contractor who operated heavy equipment, York was shot to death during a strike called by the United Mine Workers 17 years ago. Workmates who tried to come to his rescue were beaten in an ensuing melee. The head of the UMW spearheading the wave of strikes at that time? Richard Trumka. Responding to concerns about violence, he shrugged to the Virginian-Pilot in September 1993: “I’m saying if you strike a match and you put your finger in it, you’re likely to get burned.” Incendiary rhetoric, anyone?

A federal jury convicted one of Trumka’s UMW captains on conspiracy and weapons charges in York’s death. According to the Washington, D.C.-based National Legal and Policy Center, which tracks Big Labor abuse, Trumka’s legal team quickly settled a $27 million wrongful death suit filed by York’s widow just days after a judge admitted evidence in the criminal trial. An investigative report by Reader’s Digest disclosed that Trumka “did not publicly discipline or ...

More teaser on my upcoming Bianchi Cup 2011 Metallic gun – practicing for the Barricade Stage, one of the hardest stages at the Cup in my opinion.  It’s clearly a revolver, but beyond that it’s pretty hard to tell what exactly it is that I’m shooting.  I will say this though, that gun can shoot.  I was using PMC Bronze 132 grain FMJ because it was cheap and what I had in the ammo can and at 20 yards the gun shot a pretty tight offhand group.

Now, this just isn’t some revolver that I had built for the Cup, no this gun has a story to tell.  Lots of stories to tell, in fact and some that I don’t know and won’t be able to tell on its behalf.  But next May at the 32nd Bianchi Cup I’m going to try and write another chapter in its history – add another story to the list of places and events this revolver has taken part it; and I’m hoping that you’ll come along...

I grew up in a house with three brothers all relatively close in age.  With that many boys running around violence, whether simulated or real was a constant factor.  In my youth I recall that my mother tried to experiment with toy gun control.  My dad was a cop, and while we had guns in the house mom was initially opposed to us having toy guns for reasons that remain clouded to me.  Anyway, mom forbade the use of toy guns, which lasted just about as long as it took us to figure out that you could fabricate a toy gun from LEGO and Construx (if your childhood did not include Construx, I weep for you).  Realizing that toy gun control was futile, she then relented and allowed toy guns in the house.

Playing with toy guns, running around yelling “bang” and “I got you” in the So. Cal desert was an integral part of my childhood.  Cops and robbers wasn’t nearly as popular as Army vs. Iraqis; with the Gulf War going off while I was 8 in similar terrain to my home town, it was a natural expansion of the traditional childhood shoot ‘em up.

Eventually I started playing video ...

Go on, guess which one wins.

My favorite part is where it catches on fire. This is extra footage from a commercial for a tax prep company or something; I don’t know what they do and frankly don’t care because they shot an iPad with a shotgun, and that’s quite awesome.

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For those who believed politics was involved in the decisions in the car industry, it appears that Mr. Rattner's new book will provide a lot of information. So much for Obama's promise not to let politics interfere with how the companies were run.

-When Obama was told of the plan to pay GM CEO Rick Wagoner a $7.1 million severance package after Obama ordered that he be sacked, Rattner writes: "Suddenly I felt that I was indeed in the presence of a community organizer..."

-Rattner describes presidential political adviser David Axelrod coming to car meetings armed with poll data to support the takeover and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel identify Congressmen in whose districts large Chrysler facilities were located.

-"[Obama's economic team] veered dangerously close to having the government take control of the two most troubled banks, Bank of America and Citigroup."

-"If his team had linked arms with the outgoing administration, as President Bush's advisers had proposed, billions of dollars could well have been saved."
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Where will we be...where will we be indeed.... Took yesterday off and drove over to Summit County for one of our favorite bicycle rides, from Frisco up to the top of Vail Pass (10,662 feet), then whoop de do, back down again. It is a beautiful ride in any season, sort of the distilled essence of Colorado. The high aspen are just starting to go shimmery green, the color they get before they go

PanzerBlitz, designed by Jim Dunnigan in 1969, was the best of the Avalon Hill games.

Charles S. Roberts passed away recently from emphysema at 80 years of age. Roberts was best known as a historian of American railroads, but in 1954 he took advantage of his professional experience in printing and advertising to found the game company Avalon Hill in 1954.

Avalon Hill created an entire new war gaming hobby with its board games based on historical events. AH’s crucial innovations included the use of a grid overlaid on a flat folding map, zones of control (ZOC), an odds-based combat results table (CRT), and terrain effects on movement, troop strength, morale.

The earliest games were primitive, featuring large and arbitrary units, a rectangular grid offering overly limited movement and possibilities of unit interaction, and thoroughly unbalanced scenarios.

AH’s publication of PanzerBlitz, designed by the legendary ...

The Telegraph remembers Meghrajji III, the last ruling Maharaja of Dhrangadhra-Halvad, and the last surviving knight of the Order of the Indian Empire.

Meghrajji III was the 45th and last ruling descendant of the Jhala clan of Rajputs, of the Suryavanshi lineage, claiming descent from Surya, the Hindu Sun god. They were a warrior clan who originated in Baluchistan and arrived in India during the eighth century. The clan name derives from a miraculous feat by its founder Harapaldev’s wife, Shaktidevi, who caught up her children through an open window when they were charged by an elephant in must. Jhalvan is Gujarati for ‘catching’ and her children and descendant...

The issue of Costco and gun rights has reared its ugly head again.

The issue came up in an e-mail thread yesterday.

Basically, a member of the e-mail list posted a link to a page outlining Costco's gun policy:

By obtaining a Costco membership card, our members agree to comply with the Membership Rules and the Privileges and Conditions of membership.

Costco does not believe that it is necessary for firearms to be brought into its warehouse stores, except in the case of authorized law enforcement officers.  For the protection of all our members and employees, we feel this is a reasonable and prudent precaution to ensure a pleasant shopping experience and safe workplace.  Our policy is meant to protect our members and employees in all warehouses around the world.  This is not a new policy and we do not customize the policy for each individual city/county/state/coun...

From: georgemason1776@aol.com
To: (REDACTED SHORT LIST OF ATF MALEFACTORS)
Sent: Fri, Sep 3, 2010 11:17 am
Subject: Just a personal note to all my ATF friends.

Everybody needs to take a day off once in a while for rest and reflection and today is one of mine. Collecting my thoughts about what the last year of shadow bo...

Frankly, my heart ain't in it just now. Be back tomorrow, I'm sure.

Quote of the Day - Try "Both" Edition

Now I am scared. The NRA may be right. We have heard from several hunter friends they have had the same experience. Either the Department of Justice is a total joke or the government is building a database so they know where to go and pick up private citizens' guns. -- Maybe the NRA's right to be paranoid

This is not an either/or question. There's every reason to believe that the answer is "Both."

(h/t to SayUncle)

In The Iraq War, Donny Baseball sums up one of my biggest objections to libertarianism:

One of my biggest problems with orthodox libertarianism is its blindness or dismissiveness to the great importance of geo-politics and global strategy. Libertarians disdain the fact that governments spend time and resources arranging and moving the pieces on the global chess board, but it is an absolute necessity to protect and expand the footprint where the ideals of classical liberalism can thrive on this Earth. There is no other way to preserve the conditions that allow representative government and free enterprise to raise living standards and advance civilization than to be pro-active in setting those conditions. The alternative is to allow the advance of economically statist, morally retrograde, and illiberal systems over more of the Earth's territory. The default state of the world is poverty and oppression in the absence of government systems predicated on preserving individual rights and fostering prosperity. Those systems need to be protected and strengthened relative to the alternatives. That ac...

Brought to you by David Malki! in Wondermark #654.

NOTE:  In order to get the title, you have to know that almost all amateur radio operators these days start out with a handheld radio, which is (and has been for years) referred to in the vernacular as a "handy talky", or HT; this is actually the term used during WWII for the handheld radio, a "walky talky" being the backpack model.  Pics from Walkie-talkie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

SCR 536 "Handie Talkie"

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“Who knows, AnnMarie, accidents happen, they could find you in the back parking lot with blood pouring out of your head.’’ [More]

See, I don't think I'd be filing a complaint under those circumstances.

I wouldn't want anyone else to know about it. I'd want to keep it just between us.

[Via ...

"BSSA testified that 'guns and alcohol don't mix' and that it was OK for officers to be in bars because they are better trained." [More]

No doubt.

So... Davis is it? Did you start out wanting to be a professional liar or is that a career you just...

Boogedy-boogedy!

Why not just give our enemies a list to tell them ways to bring everything to a grinding halt?

[Via ...

If I was a committed anti-gunner who wanted to perpetuate the stereotype of gun owners as slack-jawed hicks, I don't think I could have done a better job of it than NRA with this idiotic commercial.

Chuck Norris may approve it. I not only find it stupid and counterproductive, I also wonder how much money this cost, and who got the sweetheart deal to make it.

Kind of makes me want to respond to one of their interminable solicitations and write them a big fat check. While saying "Gol-lee!" like a cartoon knuckle-dragging rustic boob...

Is this really what they think of their members?

No organization does more to protect our right to keep and bear arms than the National Rifle Association, and when you go against the NRA, you get thumped. Just ask Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. [More]

Yeah, and while you're at it, ask him about that $5K the Fairfax manly men thumped into his campaign treasury, and why they refuse to man up and and endorse Sharron Angle.

What is it with "conservatives" lately..."

The Washington Times, ...

One of those mothers is Mildred Carrion, whose 17-year-old son, Roberto, was fatally shot in the head last year as he and a group of teenagers played with a gun she didn't even know he possessed. [More]

God forbid knowledge should be a factor in this. I guess the answer is to disarm you and me.

Anybody know if New Jersey has tried "gun control"? Because that seems to be where Bruce Lowry is going with this, and he must be better informed than we are, because he writes for a newspaper and everything...

On Monday, Sutton said, she was awakened by incessant pounding on her back door about 8 a.m. She looked out of the window and saw two men and a woman at her back door, peering in her window.

Scared, Sutton said she grabbed her gun and held it at her side as she answered the door. [More]

HAH! That's all the excuse we need!

Just like with these compliant saps! [UPDATE: Did you catch the quote from Lt. Fran Healey about officer safety coming before rights? ]

What? Go after these guys instead?

What are you, ...

America is responsible for Mexican drug cartels...As to the guns, there aren’t any magic policy bullets, but closing down the gun shops arrayed at the border, possibly though zoning laws, is a good start. [More]

"Jacob Bronsther, a law student at New York University and former Fulbright Scholar" said it, I believe it, that settles it.

I mean, Clinton was a Fulbright scholar, too...

The question now is, do Los Zetas believe it...? Or would they happily saw this silly fool's head off and stuff his remains in a metal drum?

I mean, they never went to no fancy Americano school or nothing...

Packers Fan Announces He Will Return To Drinking For Another Season

May we please have our economy back, Mr. Presdient?

Companies added a net total of 67,000 new jobs last month and both July and June’s private-sector job figures were upwardly revised, the Labor Department said Friday.

[...]

Overall, the economy lost 54,000 jobs as 114,000 temporary census positions came to an end. For the first time this year, the manufacturing sector lost jobs - down a net total of 27,000 for the month. The auto industry accounted for 22,000 of those lost jobs, the department said. But those losses were largely due to a shift in the timing of the industry’s summer shutdowns.

State and local governments shed 10,000 positions and have had net jobs losses in every month but one this year.

[...]

Temporary employment rose by nearly 17,000, after a slight loss in July. That indicates employers are looking to boost their work forces, but are reluctant to do so permanently. Temporary hiring averaged 45,000 per month from October to May, but has since...

I hear it doubles as a rifle sling.

Update: I should follow up with my tactical underwear blogging that the ExOfficios have held up well. Unlike other brands, the elastic remains, well, elastic. And they still have the snug new underwear feel. And they keep my junk where I want it. I’m a fan. And have ordered more. BTW, you can get them here for the cheapest price I’ve seen.

I think this might fix my twitter-fu.

Seems to have worked. New twitter authorization requires updating wordtwit. Thanks to Beregond for the tip.

I am remiss in mentioning that if you head over to Knives and More and enter the coupon sayuncle, they’ll pick up the cost of sales tax.

If you had asked me if I ever thought a gun magazine would mention zombies, I’d have laughed. Yesterday, I got the latest Shooting Illustrated and there was a bit on zombies and zombie movie guns.

A shooting left some people dead. The local news mentioned that the shooters and victims had pretty lengthy criminal records involving guns and violence. So, people protested the news source. mistermix has an interesting post on the fall out.

The New America Foundation shows you how!

In the aftermath of the Great Recession, a debate over Social Security is heating up. This debate raises fundamental questions about the kind of society in which Americans wish to live. So far, the debate has been between deficit-busters who say Social Security must be trimmed back to reduce government indebtedness and others who want to maintain it as is.

But the New America Foundation just released a study that proposes a different approach: doubling the current Social Security payout, and making it a true national retirement system. Creating a more robust system of “Social Security Plus” not only would be good for American retirees, but also would be good for the greater macro economy.

They are essentially admitting that not enough people are dependent upon government, and that they aim to fix that dilemma.

Their next “great idea” will probably be along t...

Don’t worry, we’re not going to drag ourselves through the Glowball Warmening debate here.

This is just the economy. Nothing important.

I have a very disturbing email that came in this evening. It alleges out-and-out fraudulent reporting of home sales in one of the regional MLS systems. That is, prices paid that are in fact much lower than the “sold” prices reported in the MLS.

The person in question claims to have seen over 100 of these in his area. I have copies of two, and it appears, from the evidence that I have, that at least for those two the claim is accurate.

One in particular I was able to pull the auction data on. It “sold” under reserve, is listed as sold in the MLS at ~25% higher than the “sold” bid, and the premium is disclosed as 5%. This property also has a 90-day “anti-flip” provision on it, implying that the paper may be held by one of the GSEs. (It’s a nice-looking place, incidentally.)

The original writer warns that if you are working your...

And to think, they used to teach spelling in school.

Oregon seventh-graders and high school students will now be able to use their computer’s automated spelling checker when taking the state writing test, the Oregon Department of Education announced today.

The test asks students to write an essay in response to a prompt. Their writing is judged on six traits, including organization and sentence fluency. Conventions - which includes spelling, capitalization and similar features which spell check can detect and fix - is the single most important element in a student’s score, with conventions score counted for twice as much as any other trait.

One more actual life skill tossed out the window so that little Johnny and Suzie don’t get their feelings hurt by their report cards and the teachers can have even more “planning days”.

FerFal’s been on a roll with some good posts in recent days. Today he’s got a long one about QuikClot, including a link to this video (warning: graphic).

Some years ago I bought several QuikClot packs for home and car and the trauma kit in my get-me-home bag. They’re hitting their “Use By” dates and I need to replace them (they’re the old style that caused the exothermic reaction anyway, so they need to go). I’ve thought about switching to the CavArms Personal Trauma Kits sold by Dillon — they use Celox. However, the newer QuikClot supposedly doesn’t have the exothermic 2nd-degree-burn-in-the-wound problem.

Thoughts?

A while back, SayUncle reviewed his tactical manpants and I got to wondering if they made a version for those of us who don't require a flap in front.

A quick search revealed that, yes, women's styles are available, even tacti-thongs and tacti-granny panties, if that's your sort of thing. I ordered myself a pair to review (& no, I will not be roadtesting them for the advertised "17 countries, 6 weeks, and one pair of underwear." Ew.) Still can't figure out why they'd be offered in a color other than proper mall ninja matte black, though.

Oh, and you all were so worried about zombies. Fools!
And if these little bastards team up with octopi, we're all doomed.

(Book find of the day! I LOLed.)

Are here.

Tired, sore, and sunburned, but I have successfully leveled up in Mall Ninja.

Now, don't get me wrong: There's nothing wrong with having good gear, and it can make a training class a lot more convenient when you're festooned with Cool Guy dump pouches, Camelbaks, and enough loaded magazines to reenact the taking of Fallujah. However, when you look at a picture of the shooters on line at gun school and the only way you can tell the jocked-up SWAT cops from the IT guys on their tactical golf vacations is by whether their flexi-cuff holder is in a basket weave pattern or not, it can make you wonder what the point is.

Off the line, guys are comparing labels on plate carriers and chest rigs as assiduously as style-conscious sorority girls. I recently read a review of a shooting class in which the author name-dropped each piece of gear he used, from the sights on his pistol to the brand of his (I'm not kidding) tactical boots, and then opened his next paragraph with "There's not enough space to cover all the valuable information imparted by the instructor..." and I thought to myself "Well, if you hadn't just pissed away two p...

From last night's BB&Guns on Blog Talk Radio:

New Jovian Thunderbolt: Nobody figured out my Enigma posts

Borepatch: T-Bolt, your Enigma encoding made even my head hurt

Alan SnarkyBytes: ROT13 FTW!

Seriously, if you aren't making the scene, you're missing out.

but they do have their good points. Like waking up to no water because there's a main break in the area and having plenty to drink because of the jugs in the back room.

knirirr muses about the word “courage”.  When is it appropriate, when is it misused.

Interesting question to be found at the link above.  What do you call it when someone overcomes their fear, and yet it isn’t about life-or-death stuff?

What would Tam do? Heck, What Would a ZOMBIE Do?!

Time to saddle up and head North.This was a very busy working week down in the fair State of Texas (look, I was married to an Aggie, one whose family raised Longhorns, so I still feel at home down here).I DID have time to have dinner last night before I left, with Christina, JPG, the epitome of what a Texas gentlemen is, and his lovely bride Holly B (their links on my friends sidebar). I'd been

Self-defense works. Police: Homeowner Shot, Killed Intruder - News Story - WSB AtlantaDetectives in Atlanta said the victim of a home invasion turned the tables on his intruder.Police responded to calls of a shooting to find a bad guy shot in the front yard.So far is it seems the homeowner's story of what happened is holding.I would say this guy picked the wrong house to invade.Self-defense is a

The blog will be down for a short period tomorrow as I try once again to upgrade the software.  Let’s hope this attempt goes smoother than the last…

by Ken Hanson Esq.

Regular readers of our website are familiar with the refrain "elections matter." Buckeye Firearms Association feels that elections are the most important component of firearm rights: without pro-gun legislators, prosecutors, judges and law enforcement, your fundamental right to own firearms and your fundamental right to self-defense are in constant peril.

To give the reader an illustration of the importance of elections, we need to look no further than the final day of testimony on SB239 (restaurant carry and eliminating car carry restrictions) and SB247 (fixing Ohio's restoration of rights statute). On this day, those opposed to your rights got their opportunity to testify in front of the Senate. The tone, and content, of the testimony starkly reveals the difference between elected and unelected officials.

Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police

John Gilchrist Esq. is the professional/paid lobbyist for the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP.) In Ohio, Chiefs of Police are unelected officials, most often appointed by a mayor or a city council. There is no direct accountability to the vot...

Fatal shooting at S&S cafeteria in Knoxville during robbery. KPD needs your help and they have a picture of the suspect.

Thought it would kick ass
Because the first one did rock
So disappointing

I was driving home yesterday and thought the mountains looked like they were on fire. That’s because they were.

A look at the crud that can build up in sound suppressors.

In an update to the state of emergency declared in NC and limiting gun rights, the NC Wildlife Resources Commission gives some bad legal advice:

After Gov. Perdue declared a state of emergency on Wednesday due to the impending arrival of Hurricane Earl, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission received numerous calls from the public asking if dove hunting will be allowed beginning this weekend. The Governor’s Office has informed the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission that nothing in the current emergency declaration, Executive Order 62, invokes any provision of law that would prohibit lawful hunting activities, including transporting a firearm to and from a hunting location

Trouble is that is not what the law says.

A couple of quotes. First, Deval Patrick:

It’s a free country. I wish it weren’t, but . . . it’s a free country

Of course, you’re in government.

And, from an article mentioned before, comes:

“Officers’ safety comes first, and not infringing on people’s rights comes second,” Healy said.

Wrong.

A letter to the editor in Cali:

My daughter gave her daddy a gun for his birthday. As a law-abiding citizen he went to transfer ownership. Ten days later a letter arrived from the Department of Justice — transfer denied, stated my husband is a felon and he can’t have fire arms. Shock: He knew he was not a felon, had bought and registered guns for years, and now that department states that he is a felon since 1972 and can’t have any guns.

My husband called the Department of Justice. No, they could not tell him what his crime was or anything about it. They could only talk to him about it if he brought up what the crime was first. As he did not know what his crime was, he could not tell them and they refused to give him any information. Their answer was he would have to go to the police department and pay to have a Live Scan or copy of his record done. He did that. Three week later, still no answers.

The take away here, I think, is if you’re going to call the DOJ, have a lawyer. Odd how quickly that got it ironed out.

Wrong.

You use explosives:

Australian officials used explosives to blow up a terminally ill humpback whale that became stranded on a beach near Perth two weeks ago.

Bet that leaves a mess.

FTC suspects Chuck E. Cheese is marketing to children.

David thinks it odd that could happen to a a population under total state control, disarmed, guarded, watched, confined

I’ve actually thought about it. But it gets ugly in the winter.

MHI in advertisements.

Shhh

AR in 17HMR.

NAACP and Media Matters launch watchdog site to track tea party racists.

Remember the $5 silencer and the ensuing legal discussion? Mike has a pic. Looks like you could make one from parts at an auto store and a blow torch.

Stopping a shotgun blast:

Via reader matt.

Cracked on the History Channel. Top Shot gets a (small, but favorable) mention. Most of the other shows … don’t. Related posts:The Stitch in Time that Saved Two Top Shot Premiers This Weekend We’re Winning Related posts:

1. The Stitch in Time that Saved Two
2. Top Shot Premiers This Weekend
3. We’re Winning

As far as our Dead Bad Guy of the Month goes, I’m just not in the mood to give a crap about his political leanings, religious beliefs, or any of that other stuff. He was a violent criminal, taking hostages in an effort to force people to convert to his, “The planet’s better off without humans!” nuttery. It doesn’t matter to me if he voted, how he voted, which house of worship he may or may not have attended, how he felt about broccoli, etc. because none of those things made him crazy.

Something was wrong with him and, at some point, he went completely out of his mind and staged a violent, fatal confrontation with law-enforcement officers. My only real regret here is that he didn’t just off himself in a private place, where he couldn’t threaten to harm innocent bystanders like the people in the Discovery network’s building.

If we can blame Al Gore’s ridiculous mockumentary for this whackjob, then people can blame the Bible for Fred friggin’ Phelps. Both are equally unfair because Teh Crayzee exists within, with external influences being mere suggestions or, possibly, excuses/scapegoats. If we’re going to blame leftist influences instead of the asshole responsible f...

I spent some time today rooting and reflashing my old G-1 so it’s jumped from stock Android 1.6 to Android 2.2. CyanogenMod is a truly impressive piece of work, with both snazzy surface polish and a lot of nice little hackerly touches like including a root console in the standard apps panel and easy access to the recovery loader. I really feel like I have control of the device now.

Which is nice, but doesn’t have a lot of practical relevance yet. My main use for the G-1 is as a fallback in case my Nexus One gets lost or stolen. Still, there was some enjoyment in learning that, yes, I can do stuff like reflashing a phone without bricking it, and swapping around SIM cards without perpetrating some egregious blunder that wipes them. Alas, I’m still not very comfortable doing risky things with hardware – I retain some emotional reflexes from thirty years ago, when zorching anything computerlike meant you’d just incurred a five-figure bill and were in deep, deep shit.

As usual in such exercises, the hard part was interpreting the instructions. The hackers who wrote them were trying v...

More questions via Email, a classic that crops up from time to time.  “Is it necessary to carry a reload when packing a concealed handgun?”

Well, it isn’t necessary.  Not exactly.

When I first became involved in the shooting sports, way back when, there were still plenty of people on the scene who relied on revolvers for defense.  They would talk about this-or-that incident where someone would have to start slinging some lead to defend their life, only to shoot their gun dry before the threat was contained.

In other words, they would run out of bullets before the bad guys would run out.

It was pretty much accepted wisdom that the truly wise martial artist would carry a spare revolver, usually in an ankle holster.  Whe...

One of the things about the Discovery Channel nutter.

I heard some slow talking caller to a local AM radio program go into the standard, “if people were allowed to carry guns in this state… this may never have happened” argument. We’ve all heard it before. Many of us have used that argument. This guy spoke so slowly his message got stepped all over and they transitioned to traffic and weather, but let’s assume it’s an argument that is only promulgated by the smooth and well spoken.

Is that really the argument we want to use to expand CCW rights? “It’s a social good, as lots of folks with a concealed weapon salted among the people will put down wackos before they get too far.”

Maybe. Maybe not. I’m thinking carrying your gatt is good for YOU and yours. I don’t know if I cotton onto the claim it’s good for society. It's certainly secondary, not a primary argument. (Like the 2nd Amendment. It'll protect you, and as a secondary good, having a gun will give you the means to hunt, and that's fun!) Good for me is good enough. Self defense is an individual right. No need to bring a collective societal good into it apart from the good for indivi...

Unemployment is expected to have increased in August in a report to be released later today. From Yahoo News: Economists are bracing for a weak showing in the August employment report, which is scheduled to be released Friday. The private sector is forecast to add a net total of only ...

All the usual suspects are hoping for "gotcha' moments." From Fox News: A new website sponsored by the NAACP and left-leaning media operations is seeking videographers and bloggers who will search out "racism" and "extremism" among Tea Partiers. [...] The site, sponsored by the NAACP, Think Progress, New Left Media and Media Matters for ...

I know that they only think of this as the second stimulus bill. After all the recently signed $26 billion spending bill was just a "jobs" bill and this stimulus really is about something different than jobs, right? OK, I am just confused. This is also a jobs bill, but the previous jobs bill was not a stimulus bill.

The Obama administration is mulling a raft of emergency fixes to stimulate the economy before the midterms, including an extension of the research and development tax credit and new infrastructure spending, according to several people familiar with the situation.

Administration officials have been huddling almost continuously during the past week, brainstorming for ideas that would boost employment without hiking the massive federal deficit – with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner rushing to the West Wing for further consultations late Thursday.

The White House press office on Thursday refused to say how much a financial package might be, other than...

A large and significant salary difference exists between unmarried men and women in their 20s. I hope that the government will do what is necessary to quickly eliminate this horrid discrimination. This wage differential can obviously only exist due to discrimination.

Single, childless women in their twenties are finding success in the city: They're out-earning their male counterparts in the USA's biggest metropolitan areas.
Women ages 22 to 30 with no husband and no kids earn a median $27,000 a year, 8% more than comparable men in the top 366 metropolitan areas, according to 2008 U.S. Census Bureau data crunched by the New York research firm Reach Advisors and released Wednesday. The women out-earn men in 39 of the 50 biggest cities and match them in another eight. The disparity is greatest in Atlanta, where young, childless single women earn 21% more than male counterparts.
The shift in earnings power started showing up in a few big cities a few years ago and has become widespread. It isn't true for all women in their 20s working full time — overall,...

The adapter is available – HERE (bottom of page)

$55 gets you the adapter which is the part you register with the ATF according to the website.  The oil filter is considered the removable expansion chamber.

Pretty cool as a novelty. Unfortunately there doesn’t appear to be any videos on YouTube of people using one of these things.

It’s too bad there wasn’t more specs on how to use it, and noise reduction info on the website.

It would be funny if the same company came out with a set of EXTREME hi-rise sights especially for this application. LOL

If you’re a girl and you’re wear one of these:

Be prepared to get lots of attention, and questions about your Glock(s) and how much you shoot.

If you’re a guy and you decide to wear one… LOL… well be prepared to be mocked.

Available at the TeamGlock store for $20 – HERE

Click here to view the embedded video.

Pretty neat! I bet that thing has some real weight to it.

The parts (left), Assembled baffle stack (right):

The finished product (front):

The finished product (back):

...

Laser guns will replace traditional air pistols in the modern pentathlon at the 2012 London Olympics after a successful trial at the inaugural Youth Olympics.  The technology will reduce the cost of the shooting element of the five-event sport by two thirds, while the improved safety could mean new venues are used.

Full Story – HERE

*Snore* Just when I thought the Olympics couldn’t get any more boring.  At least traditional pellets were susceptible to wind, gravity, etc…

Wake me up when the fencing event using lightsabers, or the current pentathlon guns have their power cranked to blow shit up....

Click here to view the embedded video.

Looks decent, but might be kind of slow.

Related: Slate explores the question of if Freelance assassins really exist. The short answer is “yes”.

…or else somebody is getting shot.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Looks intense. I’ll watch this one for sure.

The show’s website – HERE

Aw crap.. the zombies have already infiltrated captcha on Facebook:

Hat tip: BoingBoing

Not the kind of sign you would expect to see on a bank:

Very refreshing.

It’s from the window of the Chappell Hill Bank in Chappel Hill Texas.  Judging by the pictures rotating on their main page, it looks like a really neat old place.

Source – GunFreeZone

For an extra $205 you can order this in your new Ram 1500:

(Source)

Interesting idea, but I still think keeping the guns discretely inside the cab is a better idea.

Also, call me crazy but having the guns point directly at the drivers back seems like an accident waiting to happen. It’s only a matter of time before someone might put a loaded rifle in that box and it gets rattled around enough, or something hits the trigger and it goes off.  Having them point out the side or the back of the truck wouldn’t really be beneficial in lots of cases either if such a discharge were to occur.

The look on the seal’s face is priceless.

Part of the rationalization that the stinker in chief at the Las Vegas Review-Journal uses for the Righthaven lawsuits is that newspapers are being driven out of business by bloggers infringing copyrighted newspaper articles.  While I agree that infringement is wrong (although usually unintentional), it is not particularly plausible that this is the source of the problems that newspapers are having, for a number of reasons:

1. It is true that if you copy too much text from a newspaper, it may discourage some readers from clicking through to read the article.  On the other hand, how many readers click through to read the article, if it was copied in full, anyway?  I know that I often find myself clicking through, even when a blogger has copied a substantial amount of the article--to see if they have quoted the article out of context. 

2. Traffic that bloggers get because of an alleged copyright infringement are a tiny fraction of the hits that a newspaper receives as a result of Google searches, links from Drudge Report, or even clickthroughs caused by bloggers linking to an articl...

Recently I have been seeing the anti-gun people almost begging for mercy and asking for “common ground” (see also Paul Helmke):

I am quite sure there is common ground somewhere. Can we get there? Can we talk? Can we agree on just a few things?

…

Can we get together and do what's right? Can we agree that too many people are shot to death in our country? Can we agree that some common sense laws make sense and won't affect those who are law abiding and want to own their guns and carry their guns? Can we agree that there are actually a few places where we don't actually need guns? Can we agree that gun violence is a public safety and public health problem? Can we agree that stopping the injuries and deaths caused by guns is a social justice issue?

What they do not seem to understand (or just a likely do not want to admit) is that any of the laws they advocate which would “prevent gun violence” are prior res...

Got the last of the boxes today and I was most happy with the third, which contained three badges and a replica .45 Army revolver. I think non-firing replicas are the way to go for movie-making (if you have a good After Effects operator), since blank-firing guns don't seem to stand up to close scrutiny in the authenticity column.The far left gun is a blank-shooter from Blank-Guns-Depot.com and

even just looking: when you haven't looked in years, the stickers are enough to cause a heart murmur.

And so many of the damn things are UGLY! Lots of 'cruisers' where the designers seem to think that style means "Make it bigger and heavier and they'll love it!" And not only do lots of speed bikes and crossovers have that damned 'butt up in the air for company' seating position, but they look like a beetle. A big ugly one.

I'm still hoping I can fix both the Vulcan's problems without it costing too much; but it gets above a certain point I'm going to be stuck with "How much is it worth to fix up an 18-year old bike that's not a classic or something?"

My newest piece starts this way:

President Obama thinks that by recently signing a new bill spending $600 million to beef up border enforcement he will look tough on illegal aliens. But decisions such as today’s lawsuit by the Justice Department against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to stop his policies regarding illegal aliens shows where the administration’s policies are really headed.

The bill Obama signed, which authorizes the hiring 1,500 new border personnel, the deployment of a pair of unmanned reconnaissance drones, and replacing some bases along the border is valuable, but it hardly undoes what the president has done up to this point. With a recent Rasmussen poll showing that 68 percent of U.S. voters support a plan to continue building a fence on the Mexican border, Obama's change strikes one as a temporary smoke screen.

Up until now the president has worked to cut the number of border agents. 384 border agents were cut last October 1st and in the 2011 fiscal year budget Obama proposed c...

Death by 1000 paper cuts has put this together.

What's going on with LJ and Photobucket? When I try to post a picture, the screen automatically jumps to Photobucket login screen? Very annoying. Any ideas on how to turn that off?

White light front, blue light back.




Primary Arms

Fractal Geometry The Mandelbox - a 3D version of a Mandelbrot Set was discovered in 2010 and is producing some interesting video.A trip into a Mandelbox with (relatively) constant zoom.There are a lot of Mandelbox videos if you look.And a good old-fashioned Mandelbrot Set - Constant Zoom.Because someone will ask. In mathematics the Mandelbrot set, named after Benoît Mandelbrot, is a set of points

WTF?

A Marquette Interchange freeway ramp used by 15,000 motorists per day was shut down Thursday afternoon and will remain closed indefinitely because cracks have formed in a vertical support pier.

The ramp carries traffic from W. Wisconsin Ave., at N. 11th St., to I-43 southbound.

State Transportation Secretary Frank Busalacchi said the cracks were discovered during a scheduled inspection on Monday and further investigation revealed that the 40-foot concrete support was designed improperly and is inadequate to support the weight that rests on it, including steel girders and the roadway.

Busalacchi said the design firm HNTB Corporation has accepted responsibility for the error and the repair. What will be done to fix or replace the vertical pier has not been determined, the secretary said. Also unknown is how long it will take to fix the problem.

I just read an article in North American Hunter magazine that was talking about hunters packing pistols for self defense. It got me to thinking: back when I was kid (which wasn’t really that long ago) you could go out in the field, make camp; and leave your camp and vehicle behind you as you walked out leaving it all behind with out having to worry about it being ransacked by illegal aliens. You simply can’t do it any more – at least not in my neck of the woods.

I’ve been out in the field bowhunting and have seen 12 men bringing drugs up from Mexico, some of them carrying AK type rifles. I’ve heard stories of hunters coming back to their camp or vehicle after the days hunt to find their ice chests or tents looted. I’ve had coworkers who have stopped along the highway and spooked groups of smugglers who were hiding in the ditch on the side of the road.

It is simply not as safe as it used to be, and it can all be attributed to our border situation. I havn’t been hunting in a number of years, but with this falls hunt coming up I am preparing for it in a different way. I’ll be in an area that is known for seeing both huma...

The standard out here seems to be Hawaiian Isles, 100% Hawaiian Purified Water. Now, I usually drink bottled water at home, because Philly water tastes like they stick a dead fish in the pipe ever couple of hundred gallons. Now don’t get me wrong, Hawaiian Isles is good water, but here’s the description on the [...] Related posts:

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Part of the rationalization that the stinker in chief at the Las Vegas Review-Journal uses for the Righthaven lawsuits is that newspapers are being driven out of business by bloggers infringing copyrighted newspaper articles.  While I agree that infringement is wrong (although usually unintentional), it is not particularly plausible that this is the source of [...] Related posts:

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I’m helping to fill in on Snowflakes in Hell while someone insists on vacationing in Hawai’i.  For those of you who don’t know me: I am Clayton Cramer.  I normally blog over at my own blog, so you will likely see some overlap while I filling in. It took a while for me to get [...] Related posts:

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According to a story in Wired, Righthaven LLC has expanded their copyright trolling operation to another newspaper chain. The WEHCO Media chain of newspapers has been added to the target list for Righthaven’s trolls. WEHCO Media is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas and co-owns Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC with Stephens Media. WEHCO owns the Arkansas [...] Related posts:

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If you’ve ever read the original Dracula by Bram Stoker, you’ll want to read the prequel — a deleted first chapter, really — also by him. It’s pleasure I’ve returned to every Fall for the last few decades. Enjoy.

Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker

When we started for our drive the sun was shining brightly on Munich, and the air was full of the joyousness of early summer. Just as we were about to depart, Herr Delbrück (the maître d’hôtel of the Quatre Saisons, where I was staying) came down, bareheaded, to the carriage and, after wishing me a pleasant drive, said to the coachman, still holding his hand on the handle of the carriage door:

‘Remember you are back by nightfall. The sky looks bright but there is a shiver in the north wind that says there may be a sudden storm. But I am sure you will not be late.’ Here he smiled, and added, ‘for you know what night it is.’

Johann...

More of the usual brilliance from The Last Psychiatrist.

Yes, Alan Gottlieb, who runs the Second Amendment Foundation.  The September 1, 2010 Las Vegas Sun reports on suits against a big advertiser in the Review-Journal, a PR firm named Kirvin Doak, and against P.O.W. Network in Skidmore, Missouri, and Alan Gottlieb.

If Righthaven was run by people with a lick of sense, they would have filed a suit a month or something like that.  But filing this many suits--and sometimes against people like Alan Gottlieb who are wealthy enough to fight back--is incredibly stupid.  Building a collective enemy that numbers in the hundreds is really, really foolish.

It is quite gratifying to see this vote of confidence in the mental stability of gun rights activists, however.  They are suing The Armed Citizen, Second Amendment Sisters, and a guy who runs a gun rights group for those who think of the NRA as sissies.  If we were the crazies that some people in the news media think, this would be dangerous.

The Legal Community Against VIolence [a handful of attorneys and a big Joyce Foundation grant] has posted its annual report in pdf.

It starts with, well, that little setback in McDonald v. Chicago and Heller v. DC. (p.8 8-9), predicting it will unleash a flood of litigation from the progun side.

Their explanation of legislation they'd like to see (their hopes, not their successes) occupies 3 1/2 pages, pp. 10-14.

Their explanation of where they were defeated recently (guns in parks, guns on Amtrack, Tiahrt Amendment, DC statehood defeated over an amendment cutting back DC gun laws, State legislation including Firearm Freedom Acts ("Regrettably, many state legislatures are running amok") and expanded "shall issue" CCW permits, runs seven pages.

The very last shooting exercise of the day had two students paired up on the firing line. Ahead of them was a thicket of four "no shoots" at awkward angles, and one bad guy that looked identical in the middle of the group, moving laterally back and forth in spastic, twitchy jerks, powered by Louis yanking on a pair of ropes. The target, only seven yards or so away, would start moving and you and your partner had, oh... three or four seconds to try and get good, solid hits without winging the bystanders.

On the "Go!" the target dove into the middle of the crowd. I had tried to game it by asking Shootin' Buddy if he'd mind if I took the left side, and felt pretty clever by crouching a little lower and going cyclic, hitting the bad guy a couple times in the pelvis (there was just enough gap between the front two targets) before it lurched away to the right. I heard a few shots to my right, as Shootin' Buddy got a piece of it, and I swung towards it, only to have it bob back into cover, duck right again, and suddenly shoot clean out the left, where I managed to get one good head shot as time ran out.

No good guys hit, and a couple of righteous hits in addition to ...

From Boortz, on why banks aren't lending for President Obama's "small business expansion":

These small banks aren't lending right now because they have no confidence that the small businesses they might loan their excess reserves to will be able to pay the back. Simple as that. These business owners are under assault. There's ObamaCare, the financial reform act, tax increases, card check and the empowerment of unions, Cap and Trade ... as my father (a red-ass Marine if there ever was one) would say, these small businesses don't know whether to $h1t or go blind right now ... they are no more in a mood to borrow for expansion than the banks are to loan them money.

TJIC could not be contacted by the White House for comment. Actually, he probably could be, but was likely to return fire.
Boortz continues:

Now I may concede the point to you that Obama really does want to do what he can to get the economy moving right now .. but that's only because there's an election on the horizon and he's afraid of losing his ...

Boy, that feels weird typing. But it looks like I'm sending some non-trivial traffic* to someone else. Go Team Me!

Err, Go Team You! Well done, all!

But seriously, if you haven't looked at what it looks like when a predator starts stalking your kid in his bedroom, you should. If you have any suggestions on proper way to harden his perimeter, I'm sure he'd appreciate all comments.

* This is the time where Tam and JayG start laughing at my outbound traffic. Still, it's nice to be able to direct attention somewhere.

And second, you really don't get this here internet thing, do you?

And Harry? Petraeus IS a good guy; you're a lying treacherous backstabbing sack of shit.

She got caught, and actually paid a price. Seems like most cases you hear of even when the woman is caught lying, nothing is done; the prosecutors 'don't want to be seen as anti-woman' and such bullshit.

Know what I think of when I hear that? A prosecutor and/or judge saying "Well, women lie, and holding them responsible for it is just trouble."

Bigoted fools.

Tonight, the residents of the Outer Banks are hunkering down ahead of Hurricane Earl. I expect the news will be spotty, with electrical outages and the normal news blackout when even the most dedicated weatherman finds a place to shelter from the wind and rain.

It's not so much that the wind is blowing at 115 mph, it's what the wind is blowing at 115 mph.

The Outer Banks is a personal favorite vacation spot. I can sit all day and watch the waves and the pelicans. And I have. The last time I was there, they still hadn't fully recovered from the pounding they took in 2003.

I'm sure many have evacuated, and I'm sure many more have not. If you're a praying sort, bend a knee for the folks on the Outer Banks tonight.

Ironic as all get out.

Of course this isn't an official agency poster, but the FBI certainly is in "dire need." Especially in dire need of ethics, morals and a constitutional purpose.

Barney is horrified (or wants you to be) that that the GOP thinks that Obama’s Inauguration was as bad as 9-11.

Well he’s wrong.

Obama has done FAR more damage to the US than Islamic terrorists did on 9/11.

There’s a video but I couldn’t understand a word Barney was saying. Does he actually speak English?

Anyone live within driving distance of Somerset Pennsylvania? It’s a beautiful place to visit and a group of motorcyclists from Indianapolis is already going.

Tom Burnett Senior and Alec Rawls are buying full page color ads in the Somerset Daily American for both Friday the 10th and Saturday the 11th, so anyone who makes the trip will have a ready made protest sign waiting for them. Just buy a newspaper, tape the ad to a piece of cardboard, and let the massed national media know what side you are on.

That’s right. With Laura Bush and Michelle Obama both attending, it’s going to be a media circus, and a rare opportunity to force coverage of our issue. Just self-organize. Ad-holders will show a core of united opposition (and the media might ...

h/t Ammoland.com

North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue, that is, in a comment left on today's GRE post...

A recurring troll may have gone too far this time (click image to enlarge):
Evil anti-defense fanatics trying to smear us as violent, and provocateurs trying to either pass themselves off as one of us or incite something are pretty much employing a tired old tactic, but that doesn't stop genius boy here. It's all he's got.

Thing is, I can't say for certain that...

A tax holiday in honor of the 2nd Amendment. Louisiana 2010 Second Amendment Weekend Sales Tax Holiday is Sept. 3rd, 4th, & 5thDuring these three days, eligible items are exempt from all state and local sales taxes in Louisiana. The exemption applies to purchases for individual use. It does not apply to business purchases.Eligible items include:Accessories designed to be used for hunting.Shotguns

Reset Inc. has a new product out that uses a standard style picatinny rail to distribute power to weapon accessories:

As you can see in the first picture, it appears that their powered picatinny rail piggybacks your existing picitainny rail, and delivers power via that 20 round magazine looking battery on the left.

There is very little information on their website, so naturally I have some questions and concerns:

1. How are the accessories getting power from the “Gold...

Charles Roberts, founder of Avalon Hill, passed away over the weekend. He didn’t invent the tabletop wargame, but without AH, wargame and role-playing games as we know them might not exist. Shame the obit above barely touches on the seminal role of both Charles Roberts and Avalon Hill in the gaming industry. Related posts:How Far [...] Related posts:

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With the approach of Hurricane Earl to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Governor Beverly Perdue has proclaimed a State of Emergency by executive order. Under North Carolina law, it is illegal to transport or possess a “deadly weapon” off one’s premises during states of emergency. No exception is made for recreational shooting, hunting, or [...] Related posts:

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Thanks to the fine folks who work there, I now have an annual range pass to Coal Creek Armory… gratis.

Shiny!

And while the guy who arranged for this did not ask for anything in return, I figured that a little link-whoring might not hurt by way of thanks. In short, CCA offers the only air-conditioned indoor range in the Knoxville area (something I experienced myself); but also handgun carry permit and other training courses; extensive gunsmithing of various firearms, including AR-15s, 1911s, and shotguns; Class III products including suppressors; Boy Scount programs...

By now, you have undoubtedly heard about the now-resolved hostage situation at the Discovery Network HQ, summed up by Sarah:

If your personal agenda involves completely ridding the planet of human beings, people aren’t likely to listen until you go completely bonkers and take hostages (and even then, you’re still out of your mind and in the minority). That’s the long and short of what happened at The Discovery Channel’s building yesterday, when a whackjob decided that he was tired of the network not meeting his manifesto’s ridiculous demands.

This nutbag (who shall remain nameless at this site, simply because I do not believe in feeding the attention-whoring desires of people like him) firmly believed that humans...

Via #2 Son.

UPDATE 2 September 2010 15:53: This is surprisingly good. Compare with the original music video (starting about 3 minutes in):

...

Sales/beggar calls these days. Because they all use auto-dialers. If there is a pause or delay before someone talks I can hang up without listening to a shpiel. Ain't technology grand?

Not many sales calls because of Do Not Call lists, but people that want spare clothes call every other week. I have spare clothes to give every other year, so...

Of all the shooters I've had the pleasure to shoot with, one of my all time favorites is James Austin.  James is an outstanding revolver shooter, an ICORE Grand Master with top three finishes at the International Revolver championships and has had multiple Area 1 USPSA wins. On top of that, James is just plain fun to shoot with. He's always ready to help a new shooter, or pick on me mercilessly if I mess up a shot string. James is always easy to pick out at a match, with his trademark cowboy hat, suspenders, and blue jeans.

Every Tuesday night over at KRRC they do an evening Falling Plate match, and last Tuesday was no exception.

...

Looking for "war on guns" are we?

Thanks for reminding me I haven't talked about you for a while.

I miss you, too.

Let’s just hope that this doesn’t lead to a dead guard. 

To settle lawsuits filed by inmates, state officials have agreed to make wide-ranging changes to the segregation unit at the maximum-security Waupun Correctional Institution to make it easier for them to sleep, exercise and communicate.

New windows, magazines and even hacky sacks are on the way for the 180 inmates who are housed there, according to settlements signed last month and obtained by The Associated Press. The state is also paying more than $113,000 to two inmates and their attorneys.

The inmates had argued the conditions in the cells were so isolating and harsh they violated their constitutional right to be free of cruel and unusual punishment and made their mental illnesses worse.

Outstanding.  Good for young Mr. Nash. 

Zach Nash was shocked when he discovered he had one too many golf clubs in his bag a couple hours after winning a junior Wisconsin PGA tournament.

But rules are rules, and the 14-year-old from southern Wisconsin made a decision that might surprise some people: He disqualified himself and surrendered his medal.

“I knew right away I couldn’t live with myself if I kept this medal, so it was pretty instantaneous,” Nash said during a phone interview from his home in Waterford on Wednesday, his first day of high school.

Here’s a PSA for my fellow history buffs.  Premiering Sunday on Smithsonian Channel, which is fast becoming one of my favorites.

FOX News is reporting that the Obama administration has banned the importation of nearly 1 million antique M1 Garand rifles that were used by U.S. soldiers in the Korean War for sale to gun collectors in America.

A State Department spokesman told reporters the administration's decision was based on concerns that the guns could fall into the wrong hands.

From the article:

"The transfer of such a large number of weapons -- 87,310 M1 Garands and 770,160 M1 Carbines -- could potentially be exploited by individuals seeking firearms for illicit purposes," the spokesman told FoxNews.com.

"We are working closely with our Korean allies and the U.S. Army in exploring alternative options to dispose of these firearms."

The Brady Campaign Against Gun violence, which announced last January that President Obama had earned an "F" for "Failed Leadership, Lost Lives" during his first year in office, is ...

Found in this thread on saubier.com:

…when I was flying in to Bozeman I was talking to a real cowboy (hat, boots, drawl and all).. I asked him what they do with the cattle when its -20 degrees and such. He said “nothing”. I said “sucks to be a cow” and he just nodded.

I sent in my crappy old earbuds on Monday, and yesterday, I received a $35-off coupon code for any v-moda Vibe, Vibe duo, Vibe ii, Remix Audio, Remix Remote, or Crossfade LP. For all of those except the Vibe duo and Vibe ii, that puts them at or below Amazon.com prices, depending on colors. I know next to nothing about v-moda and their earbuds/headphones, but it is still a damned shiny thing for them to do.

...

What is with folks obnoxiously demanding to know where other people’s proverbial “lines in the sand” are (see here, here, and, hell, all the way back here)? (1) It is rude (both the question, and how it is delivered the vast majority of the time). (B) It is none of your gorramed business. And (III), do you honestly think I would be stupid enough to publicize when I might start taking a… more-proactive stance… in protecting my rights?

Look, if you want to go braying from the rooftops about the exact place and time when you will start voting from those same structures, shiny – but for the love of all that is Holy and Good, stop acting so offended and put-out when people understandably tell you to piss off after you make some kind of half-assed, condescending accusation (sometimes) cloaked in an insulting question. A...

The Bateman case is a challenge to North Carolina's statute that makes it illegal to carry a firearm off your own land during a declared emergency; defendants have moved to dismiss, as I recall. So here comes Hurricane Earl, and the governor's declaration of a state of emergency, three days before dove season starts.

Giving squirrel shit a run for the 'nuttiest item on planet Earth', some environmental whacko decided that the Discovery Channel wasn't doing it's part to promote worldwide genocide so that Mother Gaia could take a well deserved break and, like many whackos before him, chose the ever so effective method of getting his point across by getting himself blowed up while attempting to kill others.

Of course progressives and the media, using a predetermined set of conclusions, labeled the loon a 'right wing, Tea Party activist', a phrase I swear must reside in their collective clipboards all based on a single, out of context line of his manifesto discussing filthy anchor babies.

Now, it was clear from his insane writings that he was at best, a certifiable eco-nut and someone who hated humanity with a passion. It feels safe for those on the right to claim he's a lefty and pawn him off on their side. Unfortunately, this ain't exactly right either.

Those who have met the former basket case indicate he was, without a doubt, bug-nuts certifiable with political views all over the spectrum.

...

Yesterday's post about the Tea Party as a Marxian reaction by the Proletariat to the Intellectual-Left Bourgeois government edifice needs elaboration. The key is, as Marx pointed out, immiseration of the masses leading to revolutionary change. Can we test this theory? Are there numbers that will show the presence or absence of government-driven immiseration?

Google is our friend. A few minute's work leads us to a cornucopia of regressive taxes that feed the Progressive State. Some of this is taken from an earlier post, but I'm rounding it out with more Regressive/Progressive cognitive dissonance.

The key point (both from the original post and the new material here) is that Progressives claim to act in the interest of the majority of the population. In reality, the majority of the population is fleeced by "Progressive" programs implemented ostensibly "for their own good", the result of which is a reduction in the Majority's standard of living.

In other words, the immiseration of the major...

Because brain-fade happens.  Action pistol shooters jokingly refer to the timers we use as “brain cell destroyers”; the joke being when the buzzer goes off you forget your whole plan.  Stress is wicked difficult thing to manage, and taking classes that induce stress or competing in a simulated stress environment are ways to ameliorate that problem.

...

A link by SaysUncle sent me there, and I passed the next twenty minutes hitting the "next', and came up with this gem, too good to not pass on. Most of the stuff on this site is NSFW and/or in poor taste, but there are enough "diamonds in the goat's ass" to keep one looking.

After what may have been a contrived incident of road rage on someone else's part, I was arrested by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department this morning for possessing a loaded handgun in my vehicle without a permit. The other guy (the one exhibiting the road rage) was, as far as I know, not ticketed for anything. In fact, the Deputy, one nasty piece of work named Cornelius, told me loudly to "shut my . . . hole" when I asked about it. At no time was I impolite or contemptuous.

I was cuffed, arrested, and taken downtown by another far more professional, even kindly, deputy and booked on a $1000 bail, but then let go a couple hours later on a signature bond. The worst part of it is that our only car was impounded, towed, and we are still awaiting word on where, when and how much it will be to pick it up. At the time I was on the way back home from my doctor's appointment by way of the route I always take.

The stint in the jail holding cell was interesting. The wall and ceiling art made of carvings (how did THEY get a knife in there?), excremental scrawlings (swastikas, of course), paint peelings (the head of the devil was particularly well done) and t...

Borepatch is becoming the next Kevin Baker

Worth reading despite it’s length.

“Those who want to expand government, by definition, want to expand the use of force to achieve their goals. It should therefore come as no surprise that liberal individuals and groups are inclined to use violence to further their goals even outside the domain of government. ” – Joe Huffman

Socialism: If we just kill enough people we can make it work!

...and it looks like he partially blames me...:) [More]

Nearly 90,000 raped in lockup, study finds [More]

Would you look at that--a population under total state control, disarmed, guarded, watched, confined...

Anyone who doesn't think sadistic degradation doesn't fit into the old behavior control punishment-for-displeasing us-or-we-just-want-to-break-you toolkit...

Not to mention the entertainment potential!

Kind'a makes one wonder why they should allow themselves to go quietly...particularly if they haven't done anything but claim their rights.

[Via ...

...mounted enough...? [Read]

Marin County sheriff's deputies turned a Taser on Peter McFarland when he refused to go to the hospital and allegedly became belligerent. [More]

And, of course:

We are confident the actions of our deputies will be found to have been both within the law and department policy.

I guess if I were so inclined and officially protected, I'd be pretty confident, too.

[Via ...

Signs, signs, everywhere there's signs...[Read]

I talked about the insane sign policy as a supplemental feature here (see "The Other Guys" blurb).

Dave Workman told me he was putting together a GRE column for it, so I'll make sure to link to it when he posts it.

UPDATE: Dave talks about it, among other things, here.

Hey, if I can't trust The One to know when it's time to shut me up, who can I trust? [Read]

[Via Ron W]

So… what is Clinton thinking?

In NC, it has been declared. That your rights are suspended in states of emergency is at issue in the courts.

And:

Starting Saturday at 12 noon, many thousands of North Carolinians will likely be guilty of an act that is a Class 1 misdemeanor for that is the opening of dove season.

With the approach of Hurricane Earl to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Governor Beverly Perdue has proclaimed a State of Emergency by executive order. Under North Carolina law, it is illegal to transport or possess a “deadly weapon” off one’s premises during states of emergency. No exception is made for recreational shooting, hunting, or [...] Related posts:

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It’s a real shame to see a new media source like Town Hall making some of the same, ignorant mistakes as the old media when it comes to gun laws. Terry Jeffery has done just that in his concern we’re selling guns and explosives to foreign terrorists. I have some good news for you Terry. [...] Related posts:

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This time, Maxim Lott brings them up on Fox News. No new information here, it appears to be a rehash of the Korean Times article; except that Dennis Henigan brings some PSH to the discussion, and Chris Cox counters. Still no one directly involved willing to be quoted on the record. A couple of things [...] Related posts:

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The economist takes a look

and here is a nifty graph to make it clear

This part sounds ever so familiar (same problem in large corporations, public schools, law enforcement, etc.)

The Goldwater Institute points to a third poison to add to rising prices and declining productivity: administrative bloat. Between 1993 and 2007 spending on university bureaucrats at America’s 198 leading universities rose much faster than spending on teaching faculty. Administration costs at elite private universities rose even faster than at public ones. For example, Harvard increased its administrative spending per student by 300%. In some universities, such as Arizona State University, almost half the full-time employees are administrators. Nearly all university presidents conduct themselves like corporate titans, with salaries, perks and entourages to match.

I’ve said before why I think CCW insurance is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Lots of cities and states out there aren’t gun-friendly; California’s CCW regime is opening up as we speak, county by county, and so there’s a good market for this insurance.

But what about gun-friendly states? Arizona’s about as gun-friendly a state as you can imagine, right?

Even there, you can be prosecuted for a justified self-defense shooting.

In this case the Armed Citizens’ Legal Defense Network stepped in, and the shooter was lucky to have a couple of good public defenders. Both of those things are extremely unlikely to happen to you. Also note that ACLD only has a war chest of $65k or so. I’m a cautious guy; I’d rather have a $250k policy backing me up, for less than the cost of a handgun.

Get CCW insurance.

h/t: ...

If your personal agenda involves completely ridding the planet of human beings, people aren’t likely to listen until you go completely bonkers and take hostages (and even then, you’re still out of your mind and in the minority). That’s the long and short of what happened at The Discovery Channel’s building yesterday, when a whackjob decided that he was tired of the network not meeting his manifesto’s ridiculous demands.

The frothy-mouthed lunatic (now dead because LEOs didn’t have a better alternative when he took aim at one of his hostages – and good freakin’ riddance) wanted The Discovery Channel to start airing programming with sterilization and population-control themes. Calling human babies “parasites,” the puke-swilling, violent criminal demanded that the network share anti-overpopulation messages with the entire worl...

The guy yesterday that held people hostage at Discovery Channel making demands that they “save the planet” by having a programing agenda that advocated for the voluntary extinction of humans (thanks to Ry for sending me the link to his webpage) will be dismissed as a nut case. This is probably a valid but perhaps further consideration should be given to the topic. Don’t forget that not only did this nut case base his philosophy on the work of Al Gore but so did Ted Kaczynski.

We have known for a long time that anti-gun activists have strong violence tendencies. And such things as John Cusack’s "I AM FOR A SATANIC DEATH CULT CENTER AT FOX NEWS HQ AND OUTSIDE THE OFFICES [OF DICK] ARMEY AND NEWT GINGRICH-and all the GOP WELFARE FREAKS" is not all that uncommon.

And o...

Today is the day that the Windows Phone team has been driving towards, and we’re very excited to say that we’ve reached the biggest milestone for our internal team – the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Phone 7!  While the final integration of Windows Phone 7 with our partners’ hardware, software, and networks is underway, the work of our internal engineering team is largely complete. 

Windows Phone 7 is the most thoroughly tested mobile platform Microsoft has ever released.  We had nearly ten thousand devices running automated tests daily, over a half million hours of active self-hosting use, over three and a half million hours of stress test passes, and eight and a half million hours of fully automated test passes.  We’ve had thousands of independent software vendors and early adopters testing our software and giving us great feedback. We are ready.

Terry Myerson
September 1, 2010
Windows Phone 7 – Released To Manufacturing...

Sorry. Some blog stuff coming soon, I hope.

According to the Department of Energy, a little over 7% - quite a bit more than you'd expect (data from 2006).

But wait - most of that is Hydro. If you take away the dams, how much "Renewable" energy - Geothermal, Solar, Wind, Biomass - do you have? 0.86%.

What make up the bulk of our energy use? Petroleum (35%), Coal (28%), and Natural Gas (23%). It's simply impossible to get any appreciable amount of energy from renewables, and a price that anyone will pay. Remember, wind power costs around three times what alternatives cost, and it's eleven times more for solar.

But the Environmental Movement is invested in these. So what can we predict? Continued NIMBY assaults on Petroleum, Coal, Gas, and Nuclear, ideally extending these assaults to the Third World. Increasing numbers of brown-outs and black-outs, as existing plants age and be...

I hope you like him.
“It’s a free country. I wish it weren’t.”


And in other socialist crapweasel news,
and maybe even better
...

because
“The transfer of such a large number of weapons — 87,310 M1 Garands and 770,160 M1 Carbines — could potentially be exploited by individuals seeking firearms for illicit purposes,” the spokesman told FoxNews.com.

“We are working closely with our Korean allies and the U.S. Army in exploring alternative options to dispose of these firearms.”
Yeah, because ALL the gangbangers just love the idea of having a three-and-a-half foot long nine-and-a-half pound rifle stuck down their baggy pants leg...

Utter bullshit, we and they know it and they don't care; all they care about is keeping honest citizens from having them. Them and any other firearm they can screw with the ownership of.

There are lots of choices out there for carry guns, and because each gun is a personal choice your carry gun is a statement, whether or not you feel it is.  It says something about you.

1911

What you think it says: “I am suave, sophisticated pistolero that will only carry the finest in defensive handguns.”

What it actually says: “I really enjoy buying spare parts and endlessly testing magazines to make sure they work with my archaic firearm.”

Glock

What you think it says: “I am a serious shooter, dedicated to my sport and self defense and so I carry the most popular firearm in law enforcement.”

What it actually says: “I didn’t want to do any actual research before buying a gun, so I just bought this hunk of plastic.”

Smith & Wesson M&P

What you think it says: “I am a smart shooter!  While I value the durability and lightweight of the polymer pistols, you should be able to customize your firearm for your hand size, which is why I carry an M&P.”

What it actually says: “The stor...

“It may be the Indian and not the arrow….but who wants a crappy bow?”

-Brian Enos

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"Earl" looms in the minds of everyone on the Eastern Seaboard from north of Cape Hatteras. Some enterprising editor dredges up this article, which was written some time ago, as a Discovery or Weather channel special, IIRC. Good luck on evacuating New Yawk City! "How Barack Obama became Mr. Unpopular": Well the story is here, but I'll give you mine...

Tonight at 7:00 Eastern.

Isn't "politically correct" a contradiction in terms?
TROOPS OF DOOM COMIC.

h/t Tam for showing me there.

That General Washington be directed forthwith to apply to General Clinton for passports to convey provisions from Pennsylvania, or the States southward thereof to Boston, or such other ports eastward of New York, as General Washington shall judge expedient, sufficient to supply the Troops of the Convention of Saratoga, and such prisoners of the British Army as are subsisted by the United States, on the east side of Hudson's River; and in Case of a Refusal or Delay to grant such passports, that General Washington forthwith order such Troops and prisoners to the States of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, for the conveniency of subsisting them, informing General Clinton of the purpose of this Resolve. [More...

The case caused an uproar last summer, when the Metropolitan Crime Commission released photographs that showed the destroyed inside of Lewis' K-9 vehicle. The car seats had been torn to shreds by Lewis' dog, Primo, who was left in the vehicle in late May, presumably becoming more distressed as the temperature inside the vehicle rose. [More]

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A police officer will not face charges related to a 3-year-old boy shooting himself in the thumb outside a Gastonia liquor store with the off-duty cop’s personal firearm. [More]

No, of course not. Did anyone really think he would?

Which is fine, because we'll need this guy out there catching North Carolina scofflaws out there who are bearing arms in defiance of the Hurricane Earl emergency edict...you know, the one that exempts "Only Ones"--even those who let their small children shoot themselves--because of their superior tru...

The only thing stupider than allowing a known foreign terrorist into the United States may be allowing that terrorist to buy guns. [More]

I was planning on tearing this dumb ass chowderhead neocon a new one today in my GRE column, but the Hurricane Earl story preempted it.

Maybe tomorrow...but it does look like some of the commentators are doing a pretty good job of things.

And it's not exactly like I've kept my views a secret...

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...if they're really out to get you. [Read]

[Via FFFW and cycjec]

The headline looks good. Jobless Claims in U.S. Decreased to 472,000 Last Week - Bloomberg But when you look at the details, not so much.First, 472,000 people out of work in one week is a huge number, all by itself. Of course most people don't look at the weekly numbers - they're too volatile.The four-week moving average, a less volatile measure than the weekly figures, decreased to 485,500 last

Wow.

Just how bad was it?  Romer admitted that no one at the White House understood the fundamentals of this recession, and how they just assumed it would behave like previous recessions.  And it might have done so, had the Obama administration applied the policies that alleviated previous recessions, especially those that Ronald Reagan used to pull the US out of a decade-long stagnation slump where high inflation eroded the buying power of Americans.  Instead of cutting taxes (especially capital gains taxes) and reducing regulation to entice new investment, Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats chose to chase a government takeover of health care, a massive tax on energy production that would penalize expansion and growth, and expanding the jurisdiction on Wall Street of the same agencies that had watched the collapse come and did nothing about it.

Romer, however, still hasn’t got a clue why a one-time expenditure of government funds didn’t make things hunky-dory:

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Let’s hope everyone is found alive.

An oil rig has exploded 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana, with 12 people overboard and one missing, the Coast Guard said Thursday morning.

Rescue attempts are underway for at least 12 people, Coast Guard spokesman John Edwards told CNN. 13 people were on board the rig total, Edwards said, noting 12 have been accounted for, but one person was missing.

The accident took place 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana on the Vermilion Oil rig 380, which is owned by Houston-based Mariner Energy.

UPDATE: Yea!

David Reed, a paramedic on board the Rowan Gorilla II oil rig located 14 miles from the platform that exploded told submitted an iReport saying he saw all thirteen workers rescued from the water.

Well, it’s a start.

Milwaukee police officers who retire to Arizona and Florida can easily get permits to carry hidden guns in those states, just like most other residents.

Soon, hundreds of former MPD officers in Wisconsin also could be able to carry concealed weapons, under a federal law that allows retired officers to be certified annually and carry their guns in any state.

The Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act was passed in 2004, and many other Wisconsin law enforcement agencies have been certifying their retirees to carry guns for years.

So after six years, MPD will finally get around to implementing the law.  But they will do so with onerous regulations. 

Retirees would have to pass the same firing range testing as active officers, using MPD-approved guns, and sign waivers that would clarify the city has no liability for any later use of the guns by the retired officers.

In addition, either Tobin or Flynn could revoke a retiree’s certification for any reason, Tobin said, and on...

Christina Romer, mystified:

When she and her colleagues [on the Council of Economic Advisers] began work, she acknowledged, they did not realize “how quickly and strongly the financial crisis would affect the economy.” They “failed to anticipate just how violent the recession would be.”

On the one hand she admits that she and her government colleagues underestimated how bad the recession was going to be.

Even now, Romer said, mystery persists. “To this day, economists don’t fully understand why firms cut production as much as they did or why they cut labor so much more than they normally would.” Her defense was that “almost all analysts were surprised by the violent reaction.”

Yet she still thinks businesses were wrong to think it was going to be as bad as it was. She’s basically admitting that she was wrong and that business were right. She just doesn’t realize it.

Or maybe she’s not admitting that businesses were right that the recessio...

I’ve been using the new-to-me Nikon SB-800 flash lately and I’m having to learn how to use a flash this strong. Using this flash for close-ups is like using an atom bomb to roast a weenie. When you were a kid did you ever burns ants with a magnifying glass? Used up close for head shots at full power that’s what this flash is like.

So I exaggerate a little, but for short-range people photography it’s occasionally blowing out the picture big time. Part of it is the flash’s power. The other part is that the SB-800 is a zoom flash. It zooms with the lens, shaping the light into a narrower beam for longer focal lengths.

I need to remember to carry the factory diffusion dome. It softens the light like all diffusers do, but on the SB-800 it does something else. The flash detects when the diffuser is attached and switches to wide angle (24mm), regardless of the focal length of the lens. If I forget the ...

Sounds so dirty. A how to.

Breda and Bonnie to discuss the Bystander Effect.

No one was hurt. And the folks at Widener’s say it wasn’t them.

Look at that picture. Don’t those armed black men scare you?!

In Philly, the police are disarming black men who lawfully carry firearms:

In the last two years, Philadelphia police have confiscated guns from at least nine men – including four security guards – who were carrying them legally, and only one of the guns has been returned, according to interviews with the men.

Eight of the men said that they were detained by police – two for 18 hours each. Two were hospitalized for diabetic issues while in custody, one of whom was handcuffed to a bed. Charges were filed against three of the men, only to be withdrawn by the District Attorney’s Office.

They’re suing. And I hope they win.

from those European social democracies after all.

From the article:

But there’s another reason why I can let my daughter swim in the Amstel, and that is that I’m pretty sure that in a well-regulated country like the Netherlands, the water is reasonably free of heavy pollutants and raw sewage. (I would not, for example, let her swim in the Mekong.) This, I think, outlines a useful distinction between different kinds of regulation. I am perfectly capable of assessing for myself the risks of swimming across a small pond in Massachusetts, or the risks of swimming in the Amstel when lots of boat traffic is around. I don’t need regulations to protect me; I have common sense. What I can’t assess for myself is the risk that the water is contaminated by raw sewage. For that, I need a regulatory agency that stops households and businesses from polluting the river. To generalise: for risks I can assess myself, I don’t want regulations that prevent me from doing as I please just because I might end up suing the governmen...

From this article we get this quote from a police official:

“Officers’ safety comes first, and not infringing on people’s rights comes second,” Healy said.

Had to put the bass drums to bed for a while and wandered to the Derek and the Dominoes Live at the Filmore album.

I went looking for that version of this track, but couldn’t find it. This one will do well enough though.

It is a little known fact that the reason behind the long outro on the live versions of this song is because Clapton has a gauge he wears on his wrist that tells him how close he is to spontaneously converting to pure rock energy (which is what actually happened to Freddie Mercury). Once he pegs the gauge he has to simmer the energy down or risk a flash cavitation.

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After taking a week off, Bonnie and I will be back on the air this evening. We plan on discussing, among other assorted things, the bystander effect - made most famous by the 1964 case of Kitty Genovese. Newspapers at the time reported that 38 people witnessed her murder and yet did nothing. This was later proven false, but the fact remains - the more people are present when a person needs emergency help, the less likely any one of them will lend a hand.

The psychology surrounding this phenomenon is fascinating - but what interests me more is the one person who chooses to step out of that crowd and act. What type of person is that, what makes them different than the rest?

Join us tonight on B B & Guns at 7PM eastern!

We're hoping for a lot of caller input on this show, it'd be great to hear from you. I know that calling in can sometimes be a little daunting - everyone tells me, "But I wouldn't know what to say!" - so for a little inspiration, and to get those mental gears turning, I'm giving everyone a bit of preshow homework....

In one of the occasional moments of lucidity that occasionally grip the craziest of nutters, the California Senate has shot down a bill that would have abolished the plastic grocery bag from their fair state.

Ever tone-deaf to hyperbole, Assemblywoman Julia Brownley, D-Santa Monica, turned the melodrama dial to eleven:

Brownley has been fighting to reduce plastic bag waste for three years, calling single-use bags "an unnecessary scourge that blows like urban tumbleweeds into every corner of the earth."

A scourge, Brownley? Really?

I bruise like a banana, so this will probably be the day that the collection of bruises on the upper right quadrant of my body, from the huge one atop my bewb to the yellow-brown-purple line along the top of my shoulder, will just merge into one big owie.

At least I'm not into some crazy hobby, like MMA or whatever; those people pay to get punched in the nose. I'm just having good, clean, sane fun.

Geek Warrior has person or persons unknown probing the defenses of his house. He's looking for opinions on what the Tangos are up to.

I have to confess myself mystified as to the rocks. However, my opinion is:

1. I'd pass the word on to all my neighbors. This seems pretty clearly to be an intrusion attempt, and they should know.

2. Then I'd pass the word on to the cops. They can't help if the Tango gets in your house, but may know what else is going on in the area.

3. I would absolutely move my kid to a different room for a few days. The breakin attempt was outside his kid's bedroom.

4. He already has the gun thing down. The only real question is 00 or #2 buckshot.

5. I'd put in motion activated lights, although this would clearly only cover part of the house. You can't defend everywhere, but this will raise the aggravation cost for the Tango, and may give you some warning. Warning is good.

Any thoughts you have on hardening your home against this sort of thing, go leave him some comments.

Well, if I am serious about taking a training class, I want to prepare. It’ll be embarrassing enough when I am at the top of my game.

What does that mean? I need to ramp up dry fire practice at home. (NO AMMO! This is the living room, not the range…) Not just for trigger pull refinements, but finger strength by pulling a DA trigger a bajillion times real fast like. I need to draw from the holster with my primary training gun, and the backup gun if the regular one decides to break DURING the class. While drawing I need to work on making the movement smooth, safe, and proper. Fast would be good too.

I think I’ll take the Sig and the 1911 and primary/backup for training. Miltsparks holster for the Sig, a Galco paddle holster for the 1911. I have the Serpa retention holsters, but some trainers ban them for certain gun models in class. Some class members are forgetting Rule 3 is my guess and putting the finger on the trigger as well as the retention release button.

That‘s one of my flaws. That’s 2 different calibers. Most classes I am looking at say to bring at least 300 rou...

The late Major General Yuri Ivanov

Richard Silverstein, in Eurasia Review, points the finger at Mossad.

The Telegraph is reporting that Maj. Gen. Yuri Ivanov, deputy head of Russian intelligence service known as GRU, died in Syria recently. Speculation is rampant that he was assassinated. He had been staying in the northwestern Syrian resort of Tartous when he disappeared, with his body later hauled in by Turkish fishermen.

Here is some background on Ilanov:

Major-General Yuri Ivanov, 52, was the deputy head of Russia’s foreign military intelligence arm known as GRU which is thought to operate the biggest network of foreign spies out of all of Russia’s clandestine intelligence services.

…Reports have suggest...

Jim Treacher, at Daily Caller, wrote the admirable headline quoted above.

[Yesterday] afternoon James Jay Lee, a crazy person with a gun, a bomb, and an anti-human manifesto inspired by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, took hostages at the offices of the Discovery Channel in Silver Spring. He was shot and killed by police. The hostages were freed, unharmed.

WaPo story

James Lee’s manifesto

All this demonstrates that stupidity and bad ideas can have serious, even potentially lethal, consequences.

Lee said at the time that he experienced an ‘‘awakening” when he watched former Vice President Al Gore’s environmental documentary ‘‘An Inconvenient Truth.”

Calling Rachel Madcow.

Go here for info on USGI load bearing equipment from ALICE onward. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the newer MOLLE II gear, they have a copy of the Care and Use Manual you can download and print out.

Visitor number 300,000 from Manassas, Virginia was a referral from Say Uncle‘s place.

Thanks for spinning the SiteMeter!

Garands and Carbines, that is:

The South Korean government, in an effort to raise money for its military, wants to sell nearly a million antique M1 rifles that were used by U.S. soldiers in the Korean War to gun collectors in America.

The Obama administration approved the sale of the American-made rifles last year. But it reversed course and banned the sale in March – a decision that went largely unnoticed at the time but that is now sparking opposition from gun rights advocates.

A State Department spokesman said the administration’s decision was based on concerns that the guns could fall into the wrong hands.

“The transfer of such a large number of weapons—87,310 M1 Garands and 770,160 M1 Carbines—could potentially be exploited by individuals seeking firearms for illicit purposes,” the spokesman told FoxNews.com.

“We are working closely with our Korean allies and the U.S. Army in exploring alternative options to dispose of these firearms.”

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The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office is closing its Cleveland concealed handgun licensing (CHL) office today and moving it to Parma.

According to the article, the new office will open Sept. 15 at the auto title office at 12100 Snow Road.

From the article:

"The new location also offers free and plentiful, immediate access parking and evening hours on Wednesdays," spokesman John O'Brien said.

"A second, east side location is under search, and location selection will be based on feedback and analysis of the Parma location issues and benefits."

The Parma office will be open by appointment only from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays; 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesdays; and 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays. Call 216-443-5563.

The article does not indicate how a person may apply for a CHL in Cuyahoga County before the office opens in Parma. According to state law, sheriffs must accept applications for CHLs at least 15 hours per week, and applications f...

By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com All photos contained in this article were taken by DefenseReview.com, and are copyrighted. DefenseReview.com owns the copyright on these photos. The photos were shot with a Canon PowerShot S90 10-megapixel digital camera (still camera with video capability). September 2, 2010 Back in May (2010), The Firearm Blog published a very short [...]

by a stand-up comedian: “See, today y’all got those cute little Frosted Mini-Wheats with the sugar on top. When I was a kid we had to eat the big ole bale a hay Shredded Wheat.”

It’s funny ’cause Shredded Wheat really is a big ole bale a hay.

And Grape Nuts isn’t made with grapes or nuts - it’s just jogging for your jaw.

Previously - Star Wars Breakfast Cereal

Via Kopel, Maxim Lott discusses the Obama administration’s role in this:

The South Korean government, in an effort to raise money for its military, wants to sell nearly a million antique M1 rifles that were used by U.S. soldiers in the Korean War to gun collectors in America.

The Obama administration approved the sale of the American-made rifles last year. But it reversed course and banned the sale in March – a decision that went largely unnoticed at the time but that is now sparking opposition from gun rights advocates.

A State Department spokesman said the administration’s decision was based on concerns that the guns could fall into the wrong hands.

“The transfer of such a large number of weapons — 87,310 M1 Garands and 770,160 M1 Carbines — could potentially be exploited by individuals seeking firear...

Gil Ronen:

One of the people murdered by Palestinian Authority terrorists Tuesday used to carry a gun for self-defense, but Israeli authorities took away his permit in late 2009 – leaving him defenseless.

Heh.

ETA: Not saying it’s a good idea. Just that it’s funny.

A review with photos.

Photos of bullets passing through water droplets.

Obama appointee from Chicago distancing administration from Brady Campaign agenda.

Trailer for The Walking Dead:

Man shot by police after being confronted for whittling.

Man dies after being shot with a BB gun.

Tam has notes from class.

Looks more like a solution in search of a problem to me. But it is pretty cool.

Crazed right-wing gun man takes hostages . . . wait, what? I eagerly await the press doing some in depth investigative reporting into the rise of eco-terrorists.

Also, if you think we need to rid the world of humans, just point the gun at yourself. It’s easier for everyone.

Suppressed 44 Deagle with a suppressor and EOTech. And why not.

Cool lower (note: link is SFW but any link from there may not be)

KRISS Super V

Sirt pistol

Making a 1911

A question:

What’s cooler: Guns disguised as ordinary objects or everyday items that look like guns?

Things that realistically look like guns are kinda stupid and can get you into serious trouble.

If you buy a Sig.

69 year-old grandmother shoots intruder who was in her bedroom.

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Counting down the days until a rifle I have only glimpsed briefly and seen pictures of actually materializes and I get to hold one. There are rumors of one here or one there. I located someone I know close who actually HAS a very nice one, in storage. Several folks, including cousin Wallace have shot one or two. Gunshop and pawn shops recall Johnsons coming through now and then. They float by on Gunbroker at inflated prices being relisted time after time with few bids.
Well see sooner or later.

After seeing Victor’s blazingly fast reloads at the recent match, I decided to pop some cash onto a more serious Magwell for my Kimber. I’ve been using the excellent Smith & Alexander Magwell for a year now and it has worked well for me, but this one is MUCHO bigger.

the TechWell SP Magwell System comes with matching grips that are fitted to hold the Techwell in place.

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knirirr has given me a heads up to the Big Stick Combat Blog, the focus of which is using stick fighting techniques for self defense.  In particular, using a baseball bat.

Interesting stuff, and the author likes to keep things short and simple.  He also isn’t shy about linking to material at other sources, so there is a fair amount that stick fighting enthusiasts will find of value.

I was struck by the following quote …

“…baseball bats have become the weapon of choice for street thugs in the UK.”

That is good to know, in case I ever plan to visit and take in the sights.

What happens when someone hits a Sig P226 just as hard as they can with an aluminum baseball bat?

The link leads to a video that is only 1:17 long, so you might as well watch.

Last Spring -- in polls of Arizona residents -- support hovered around 70%. Now, despite the hue-and-cry from liberal media and the White House, that number has shot up. From the AP: The survey conducted on behalf of Arizona State University's Morrison Institute for Public Policy found 81 percent ...

So there's this gun show in Illinois where folks bring old and new firearms and memorabilia to be appraised and possibly purchased by dealers -- sort of like Antique Roadshow. One guy brought stuff he inherited from his father. That included a live, "red canister" grenade. Cops were ...

I watched the NBC Evening News last night and while they covered the mutant Lee's hostage situation at the Discovery Channel building, they really downplayed his leftist, eco-terrorism ramblings, they made absolutely no mention of the fact that he claims he was inspired by Al -Save the Froggies- Gore. ...

Remember the Banned XBOX 360 Ad Involving ‘Hand’ Guns?

Well someone added muzzle flashes, explosions, and gore:

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Really took away its innocence.  haha

Awesome fortune, although it does violate the “be sure of your target and what’s behind it rule”

I think I’d prefer paying a fine.

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Interesting video. Poor weapon manipulation skills.

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Arming all the passengers on flights?  With the right choice of ammo, works for me!  Sounds like Archie could have prevented 9/11.

As you know i’m a big advocate for arming everyone that isn’t a criminal (or mentally unstable). In the “gun free zones” the criminals obviously have the upper hand.

Extreme Tactical!

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You’d need good wrists to even point that thing at a target.

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Pretty quick!

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Glad to hear he is alright.  His buddies will give him a rough time about that for the rest of his life. hehe

EDIT: The skydiver is not a Ranger, he’s a Golden Knight (Thanks for the correction Molon Labe)

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