RIFLEMAN'S JOURNAL - FEBRUARY 2009
All we want is to be left alone. But if the other side insists on poking the rattlesnake....
Want. Solely for teh 3vil. Of course I'd need a pistol with a rail first....
Reader sends Quote o' the Day: "I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world." - Mark Twain
Nah, Idaho's too far for an Appleseed, taking it off the list, especially when there are six scheduled right up the interstate, not much farther than I would go for a Lone Oak Garand match.
Chat & show every Sunday 1100 PT.
I see Big 5 has begun advertising the Mossberg M464, the not-really-Winchester-1894-lookalike. $400 on sale, regular $500.
2091 - Monday, 2 February 2009: It's a job, shrug. Relatively quiet and autonomous, which suits.
Effing traffic. Effing west-side cowpaths-with-pavement.
Need book, and the library isn't coughing anything up yet. Grabbed The Science Fiction Century, big fat collection edited by David G. Hartwell, that should sustain me a while.
Speaking of the two gun cultures, here's more depth.
Arizona might get Alaska Carry.
2092 - Tuesday, 3 February 2009: Long effing commute.
It's a production job.
I really should do this. And so should you.
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort." - Article III, Section 3, United States Constitution
Merchandise. There's room on my hat for more pins....
Cops are the enemy. Don't help them. Don't support them. Don't trust them.
2093 - Wednesday, 4 February 2009: Effing cityfolk.
Tired. Last job I typically got back to the hovel about 3pm, barring library and such. Now I get back around 6 if traffic is only normally sucky. That's three waking hours a day, gone. At least I got my work computer today so I'll be able to read many of my webcomics at lunch and save some bandwidth when I get to the hovel's dialup.
2094 - Thursday, 5 February 2009: Effing Microsoft.
Hey swell, the landline was shut down and I no longer have dialup and there is no unsecured wifi signal in range of the Cantenna. So you won't be reading this for a while. At least the work machine is vastly less restricted than the last job, so I'll be able to check email there and, theoretically, even update this site from work, hm. I thought I had more time to pay the bill (or part of it). Now I suppose they'll require the full payment, which I can't do 'til the 13th.
2095 - Friday, 6 February 2009: Effing Friday traffic.
Okeh, so, dere was dis squirrel financial crisis.... Dialup has been disconnected and anything you see will be via wardriving with an ancient NEC laptop with maybe 20 minutes' life in the one battery and less in the other. I won't be able to do anything about the phone 'til the 13th, though I do have enough to get by otherwise until then (including a show and range day with Yuri tomorrow since I don't need that money for the phone bill right now (not that I intend to buy anything but fuel on the way back, but admission is $7 and then we're driving to the club besides)). I am therefore contemplating dumping the landline altogether - I rarely use voice communications anyway - and getting some kind of higher-speed internet service.
It looks like this might be what I'm after, and it looks like $109 total startup, which I also can't do 'til the 13th. If I'm reading it right, I'll have a device that uses a cellular network with broad coverage which I can plug into nearly any machine (with accompanying software) and off I go at $40/month. Since I don't have the money yet anyway, this seems a good time to ask my techno-geeky readers for commentary. You may respond to the usual address, mail2web is accessible from work. Anyhow expect email to fall quite a ways behind for a week or two.
Meanwhile, I do have less-restricted access from work so I can at least read 'blogs and webcomics. Thus:
All we want is to be left alone. How many times must we say this before we have to emphasize it? Some folks just don't listen.
The New Blacklist. 1st Amendment? What 1st Amendment?
Mmmm-hm. Doofuses.
2096 - Saturday, 7 February 2009: Aaand the show & range day ain't happening neither, shrug, I need laundry anyway.
It's highly unlikely I'll be in chat tomorrow, and maybe next week too, though here I get the show on the air. It looks like that Cricket deal is web-only and far more expensive retail, and web would take 3-5 days for delivery, so I might not be back online from the hovel 'til the 20th.
2097 - Sunday, 8 February 2009: Day four without internet - the hallucinations begin....
I'm only going wardriving once per day, the NEC's battery life makes more than that pointless, and I use mail2web to do as much email as I can before they fail. Weekdays at work is easier.
Reader suggests Clear, but there are brochures for them in the cafe at work and I already checked - no coverage at the hovel. :( Yuri suggests Comcast cable, investigating - do I need/want the mobility of Cricket's USB cellmodem? OTOH Comcast always wants to bundle stuff I neither require nor desire - I just want internet. Sprint airtime card, according to an Elf (I did briefly make it to chat), is $60/month, Cricket beats that. Verizon, AT&T? Dunno, I think both are on our boycott lists for some reason(s). Cost is a factor anyway.
Meanwhile I at least had time to replace the Corolla's front brake pads (purchased months ago and procrastinated), and the wardriving session did for the test drive.
Radio news, some sheriff in Ohio whining about the cost of rescuing some stranded ice fishers, suggesting fines and penalties for people who end up needing rescue. Excuse me? Isn't that exactly what you're supposedly taxing us into serfdom for already? So, you want us to pay you for the privilege of robbing us at badgepoint? And cops wonder why we hate them.
On the show (and the lists and from readers and...), the Second Amendment March (aka Million Gun Owners' March), roughly scheduled for April 2010 (the 19th is a Monday that year, hm) in DC and every state capitol. Hmm. Appleseed has taken way-the-heck off and is still growing, might this as well? -The prags are of course predicting mass arrests and "sending the wrong message" and whatnot. Umpty hundred thousand sovereign citizens telling their government to leave us the hell alone cannot be a "wrong" message. That's how this nation was created.
Hey sis - thanks again for the laptop. It's old and slow but it works. Without it I'd have like 700 emails backed up and readers pestering other readers to swing by the hovel to see if I'm dead. ;)
2098 - Monday, 9 February 2009: Day five without internet - I have resumed playing Empire Deluxe....
Effing securitycrats. My employee badge ain't quite right and they're incapable of grokking. But I got in early trying to fix it and had some 'net time. Hence:
Who do you call when the cops break the law?
People are getting ticked at the federal government all the heck over the republic. In New Hampshire. Montana. Arizona. Oklahoma. Michigan. Missouri. Get a rifle. Learn how to use it. It's 1861 all over again....
GRE in Minneapolis.
PeTAfreaks. Really must go hunting some year.
Still investigating internet options. Comcast has a promo, first three months for $20 then $43 thereafter, but there's the whole cable-guy schtick, phooey. Portland has WiMAX but again, no hovel coverage. Cruffler lends weight to Cricket, investigating further - the plan I've looked at so far is limited to an average of 100Mb per day and I can see myself exceeding that once I break the dialup barrier, hm. Cruffler mentioned some kind of unlimited bundle for not much more.
2099 - Tuesday, 10 February 2009: Day six without internet - I am training a small rodent to bring back news of the outside world....
Snow. Traffic. Mass incompetence.
Cricket unlimited wireless internet, $40/month. I think that's it. Startup costs though.
More bigotry.
Add Wyoming to the anti-federalist list. I note that Wyoming has two Republican senators who both had the spheres to vote against Holder, while Montana has two Democrats who did the expected. If you're on GOA's email list you'll see the vote breakdown - only a handful opposed Holder. Effing RINOs.
OTOH there's this from MT. And guess who's attacking it?
Next stop, civil war. It's past time to pick sides.
Cruffler points out that the Cricket cellmodem would be useful if I were to indulge in another epic road trip (though I would hope to have a faster laptop by then (ironically I'm assembling them at work, adding CPU and RAM and HDD and WiFi to a base unit)).
My regular library branch is a wifi zone and inside are tables with AC for folks' laptops. This will make wardriving ...not really wardriving anymore. But, all branches close at 6pm except Monday and Tuesday, which is about the time I would get there from the opposite end of the urban sprawl. The hours used to be longer of course, until the library (and it's six-figure director) got even more of our tax money. Of course. So it's the hotel parking lot Wednesday through Friday.
And there's a lesson there to apply to the current economic mess. The more you pay government to do something, the less of it you get. Ya know, there's reasons the Soviet Union fell apart....
2100 - Wednesday, 11 February 2009: Day seven without internet - I fear my rodent companion has fallen prey to direkittehs....
Quotes o' the Day:
"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." - Margaret Thatcher
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)
"Americans have long ago abandoned respect for the constitutional limitations placed on the federal government. Our elected representatives represent that disrespect." - Walter E. Williams
"A tell-tale sign in politics is when people get angry. It means they are losing the argument. Obama is angry." - The Weekly Standard's Matthew Continetti
"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation." - Dr. Adrian Rogers (1931 - 2005)
Lemme guess - AARP endorsed Hussein, right? How's that workin' out for y'all?
Setting The Science Fiction Century aside (and skipping the H.G. Wells entry after Beck's tirade last night), starting War Games, yet another Flint/Baen reissue of Christopher Anvil.
2101 - Thursday, 12 February 2009: Day eight without internet. The direkittehs have found my cave and have laid siege. Repulsed three assaults so far. Nom-munition running low. The next attack will be hand-to-belleh combat....
Founders' quotes are flooding the lists lately. You've all seen this one before: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Stephens Smith, 13 November 1787
Now let's examine that a bit. One common criticism is that we patriots always gloss over the part where our blood gets spilled - but it ain't so. Badgethugs are already murdering us and getting away with it - even getting a medal for shooting a teenage boy in the back at Ruby Ridge and getting out on bail for the outright execution of an unarmed man. We don't have much to lose, and less every legislative session. We're figuring on taking some losses, we already have been. How many losses is the other side prepared to accept? We're. Better. Shots. They won't like it when we start shooting back.
Gamers... many of my coworkers are. Seems like, they do well in an FPS game and think they are teh awsumm. Lemme tell ya boys, that don't translate to the real world. And reality, she's a comin'....
2102 - Friday, 13 February 2009: Day nine without internet - have escaped siege but my cave is no longer defensible and must be abandoned. As I wander in search of new shelter I see the terrible evidence of the direkittehs' depredations....
Paid. But the thing is, the checks reach the temp office Thursday and are dated Friday, and as previously grumped, direct deposit takes unreasonably long to activate. So first I have to drive halfway across that side of town, on the meandering cowpaths-with-pavement, in afternoon rush hour, to the temp office to fetch the check, and then I have to stop at the bank on the way in the next day, in morning rush hour, to deposit it.
But the bank has it now and I've ordered the Cricket thingie. "3-5 days" for delivery, uh huh. "Signature required", that'll be all kinds of backing-and-forthing.
Do read Codrea's National Gun Rights Examiner every day, as well as WoG of course.
Columbia Conservative Examiner.
Three-day weekend with an opportunity to make up time with four 10-hour days - which I declined, this commute sucks. Also, unexpectedly off at 3pm today, also for the holiday weekend, so I used the library's wifi for a while.
Since I have no landline - and later, I'll have to pay that bill - I'm also shutting down Localnet, which will probably kill that email address. Probably I'll get another address with Cricket, but the .NAME comes with the domain I purchased and that's separate from any ISP.
2103 - Saturday, 14 February 2009: Day ten without internet - direkittehs in constant pursuit. All nom-munition expended. I have constructed batty-toys from deadwood and foliage in an attempt to buy time, but they are not so easily distracted....
Went to the show, tortured self with various things - like a .357 Uberti SAA clone, very pretty, 4¾", case-colored frame, brass grip frame, marked $389; three or four pre-Zit M29s including that M629 4" Mountain Gun ($800); that .58 Zouave still (which is not Navy Arms but Lyman on the lockplate and Zoli on the barrel) (is that thing supposed to have a spring for the rear sight leaves? They're just flopping around loose); stubby '97 Winchester right out of The Wild Bunch, $300; CZ97, $750, a temptation easily resisted. Redhawk 5.5" .44, $575; two Marlin 39As on the same table, not marked - haven't seen a 39M for some time. Blew $5 on FoNRA raffle, matched 50th Anniversary Blackhawks, .44 and .357 (which I would likely liquidate to a Proper Collector if I won), and a race-rigged 10/22 (which I might very well find a use for...). Met the 'smith again - distracted by recent poverty I did not think to bring the .22/1911 kit for attention but next month I will, and the rest of the 1911 as well to possibly get a taller front sight installed to match the LPA rear someone hammered into the dovetail. Many vendors absent this month - Cruffler pointed out there were two other shows besides huge Expo (Centralia and WAC Monroe) - but still, these days, a big "GUN SHOW" sign out streetside is guaranteed to draw crowds.
After, library wifi again. Webcomicoholic....
I had intended a range trip after the show but Yuri couldn't make it and I was feeling lazy and knew I had to wardrive later anyway to keep the email down to a couple hundred, so shrug. Besides the cold (mid-40s F) would affect ballistics, as I've seen and 'blogged. Next weekend is pins, but that's a long drive and a short paycheck. Library is closed Monday, I might not wardrive at all that day and just watch DVDs.
2104 - Sunday, 15 February 2009: Day eleven without internet - by great good fortune I happened upon some wild catnip plants. Careful use has allowed me to gain ground from my ruthless pursuers, but this resource is also limited....
Zzz. Again briefly in chat while the batteries held - library doesn't open 'til 1pm on Sunday and I don't think the poor old NEC can stream audio while doing anything else (though there is a headphone jack). "President's Day" on the show, featuring honchos from Taurus, Crimson Trace, Brownell's, & Remington. -There was actually a laptop for sale at the show, a Toshiba A205 running Vista, $500 (or trade for a Ranch Rifle). While chatting about it came up the subject of the new netbooks, those little $350 things often running XP still - dunno about those, I might not want something so limited, hardware-wise. But hey, I'm still broke, right? Yuri knows a liquidation place in his area which I still haven't examined, might find a bargain there.
Now why haven't I been using the Magic Wand feature in the Opera browser before now...? Saving many keystrokes, important while wardriving.
Setting War Games aside for Ringo & Cochrane's latest Posleen, Honor of the Clan.
Many of Our Kind are veterans with real-world combat experience, and they're sharing all kinds of useful information with those like myself who are not.
2105 - Monday, 16 February 2009: Day twelve without internet - have discovered midriver island which should prove defensible, direkittehs being naturally averse to water. However, the island is small and has few resources of its own, requiring frequent foraging, and even when surrounded by water the risk of attack can never be completely eliminated....
Zzz. Signal problems yesterday, couldn't upload, wardriving a bit after all. Not enough battery to handle email, but I had to post the latest installment of Day of the Direkittehs. ;)
I did at least look at email - the Cricket is scheduled to arrive by FedEx on Wednesday, and I'll probably have to go fetch it on Friday due to the sucky commute; a Florida reader reports seeing customers exiting an arms shop with full cases of Winchester white-box somethingorother as the Great Hussein Arms Rush continues. Mention of an Appleseed in Wilsonville, even closer than Castle Rock, 28-29 March, but that's the day I run the plate match.
Talk radio (pardon me, eee-vill conserrrrvative talk radio): protest at state capitol, exploiting presentient public-school students who have little if any clue what their placards mean (or, judging by my own experiences, what they even say). Something about school funding and teacher pay and the usual bureaucratic taxtheft. The kids don't know what they're supporting, not least because government schools very deliberately have gotten out of the business of teaching how government works - they don't want students to have that dangerous knowledge. (They damn sure don't want them to know how government is supposed to work, and allowing students to compare one with the other must be prevented at all costs....) And the educrats who call the show to defend their theft from the productive class and their appalling lack of results, are either criminally ignorant or outright liars.
2106 - Tuesday, 17 February 2009: Day thirteen without internet - attempting to plant catnip on the island, hoping to grow a greater supply, this being one of the few weapons which has proven effective against the direkittehs. My new location seems undiscovered so far and I look forward to a period of rest, but I must also begin work on fortifications and camouflage....
Turns out, Localnet and a Qwest residential line add up to slightly more than the $40/month for Cricket high-speed (not counting the big fat $tartup). This latest financial crisis was the impetus needed to get me off dialup.
Work grunt.
FedEx shows the Cricket on a truck today. Which means I'll probably miss delivery. Often UPS will just give up and leave the package, shrugging off the signature requirement, but I haven't received via FedEx at the hovel before, dunno what they'll do. -Yup, delivery failed. I notice UPS has introduced a mailbox system, something I 'blogged as suggestion months ago.
[thought=random] Throughout history, all the way back to the Barbary Pirates, the United States of America have been opposing fascism, terrorism, and dictatorship. ...No wonder the rest of the world hates us.
FedEx leaves a thingie on the door much like UPS. Apparently there is a facility rather more convenient than UPS' Swan Island traffic-trap and I might even get there after work tomorrow before they close.
2107 - Wednesday, 18 February 2009: Day fourteen without internet - today I had a brief encounter with another wandering survivor, the only other human I have seen since the attacks began. As I feared, he confirmed the widespread nature of the direkitteh phenomenon. He refused to join me on my island, hoping to find more survivors further north, but he did give me tips on resisting further attacks, and for food traded a precious can of whipped cream, a powerful distractant....
In today's NGRE, Codrea illustrates how far we have fallen.
Workforce.... At least they mostly speak American here but for-crying-out-loud how can some people even get hired, much less keep their jobs? Sigh.
Montana. Again.
Cricket delivery failed again. The door tag from yesterday sez the facility is open 1800-1900 only, M-F, and last night I was at the library fighting the NEC until past then, not having seen the tag yet. See, this is a typical daily experience for me, never getting stuff easy. But tonight I should have it....
Appleseed... it seems to me my current skill level might be working against me. After the initial "where are you now" targets, the instructors naturally tend to focus on the worst shots who need the most help. Since I'm already Rather Good Akshualy (still #37 in CMP's West region for JCG matches - 2nd of 26 in my last such, 1st overall in the last AvA) I fear I might be missing out on some tips for improving my positions and technique....
Cricket cellmodem retrieved. Installing....
BANDWIDTH.
I HAZ IT.
Ohhh, sweet intarwebz. Alas this will end the Direkitteh Chronicles... for now. Having a bit of trouble with Outlook Express though. -Apparently Cricket is not an ISP as such - documentation is minimal and there's no hint of having a Cricket email address, shrug. Baaannnndwidth, drool.
Aaand hey, my monitor's going out. Manufactured April 2001, shrug. I've been wanting an LCD anyway.
Ed W. Freeman, MoH. The official citation is here. Just... scroll through that site sometime.
2108 - Thursday, 19 February 2009: Day two with high-speed internet....
Zzznrk... intarwebzzz... twitch....
And then I got out of bed and went back to work, sigh.
VCDL rocks. Again. Doofus blueshirts. -Troubling thought: next time the badgethugs might just murder him outright - they think they can get away with anything, they have been for decades....
Thought police. Orwell warned us. But nooooo, no, we wouldn’t listen....
Severe financial hazard. Personally. Shopping specifically for a monitor - 17" or better, and I’m thinking widescreen. Thing is though, the old HP box has on-board VGA only, older PCI slots only. I’m not the kind of high-end gamer who needs a $300 video card with two dedicated 12v feeds from the power supply but I do like my resolution up in the 1200-somethings by 1000-somethings. Upgrading to DVI or whatever the current standard is would be an unnecessary expense (I hope). For example. -It says 1440x900 but also says it supports 1280x1024. Huh? Most of my components are third- or fourth-hand, often bartered or donated. I’ve some catching up to do.
Huh. In his episode of Tales of the Gun, Kalashnikov strenuously denied his Avtomat owing anything to any other design.
And hey swell! The temp office is closed by the time I get there to pick up my check! Grumbledirectdepositgrump.
Reader sends monitor suggestion. That looks about right, if the 900-pixel question can be answered.
I think Outlook Express is properly configured now for incoming and outgoing on the .NAME address.
2109 - Friday, 20 February 2009: Where do bureaucrats come from? -Not that I’ve had any run-ins with one lately but there are so many of them, everywhere. Are there bureaucrat families who churn out staggering heaps of uselessness generation after generation? Do they go to Worthlessness School to earn their MI (magister inanis) degrees? How does one get recruited into the International Brotherhood of Parasites?
Busy weekend - pins tomorrow morning, maybe range time at my own club after that, then maybe the club’s first regular swap meet Sunday morning and/or the OAC show and then chat. Then work again. But first I have to fetch my paycheck dammit. ...Which on these roads took most of my lunch hour. At least there’s a bank branch right next to the temp office.
The Only Ones Files go national.
Not unrelated, what was it Santayana said?
2110 - Saturday, 21 February 2009: Quite nice weather today.
Small turnout for pins, only eight. I got 2nd. The Witness continues to function flawlessly, sharply contrasting to most of the 1911s (which were most of the field) I saw today.
I had intended to stop at my own club after for practice - I have access to an LTR which I may take to future Appleseeds - but I forgot my club badge (and earmuffs and it's a wonder I didn't forget the ammunition). Tomorrow is the OAC show and club swap meet, but tomorrow the club is also open to the public. I think I'll hit OAC, then sniff over the club and if it's not too crowded with Fudds I'll get practice then. Also I have those .357 wadcutter loads to chrono.
Charlotte GRE illustrates our Constitution's reset button. Ya know, you control-freak government types... we're trying to not have a civil war. All we can see is you trying to start one. Meanwhile Codrea has a two-part on the continuing arms rush.
2111 - Sunday, 22 February 2009: Zzz. Too pooped for the range or swap meet today but I did hit OAC, theme "Edged Weapons" - saw Marlin 39M, $450, sigh; Uberti Richards-Mason repro, .38 Special, $375; Luuuugers; bought $3 pocketknife so I don't have to use my Good Knife on boxes at work. Even this tiny collector-snob show seems crowded, with several new faces who a veteran show-goer like myself could tell were New Customers. Grabbed flyers for Northwest Historical Military Collectors Association, 26-27 June, same location; and the 54th Annual Missoula Gun Show, 7-9 August, to fuel lottery fantasies ('cause I'd have to win to afford the travel).
Chat & show every Sunday 1100 PT, featuring Concealed Campus honcho and mention of this and comparable exercises in Camdobian-style reeducation.
Email way backed up, but what else is new? While answering one I surfed across this, which would be way simple to handload of course. Imagine this in an 18-shot Witness originally designed for .38 Super. :D
As a frustrated would-be filmmaker I've had this idea for quite some time. This is well done.
2112 - Monday, 23 February 2009: Gods I hate working. The only reason I get out of bed is to support my ammunition habit.
Another reason to support a Jindal/Palin (or vice-versa) ticket in 2012. ...If we make it that far.
Some time ago I ‘blogged that the guy who gets the orders gets a vote too. Dig the comments by Stewart Rhodes, and Vanderboegh of course. All we want is to be left alone. And we’re not alone in that desire.
2113 - Tuesday, 24 February 2009: Forgot to upload last night.
Speaking of the guys who get the orders, holy crap.
Spine. They have it.
We often point to Switzerland as an example of an armed populace in a peaceful society. Not for much longer?
Book. Will order soon. Gotta pay that pesky rent thingie first....
Holy crap, Adama was right!
Holy crapping crap. Glenn Beck was right. And I gots family down in Arizona too. Up here it's 1861 all over again, down there it's 1910....
2114 - Wednesday, 25 February 2009: Bleh.
Whoa. This is not what I’ve come to expect from government attorneys. A pessimist can only be pleasantly surprised....
Yup.
I’m working for one of the Large Electronics Companies on the west side. I assemble small numbers of computers - desktops, laptops, or rack-mount servers - to be used for demonstrations or training by other departments of the company. I’m looking over the work instructions for the latest such and... This Will Take Some Time. Clipping metal here, drilling & tapping plastic there, applying electrical tape variously, even snipping one component off a circuit board. Usually one just takes off-the-shelf parts and plugs them together, routing the cables in a Very Particular Way, but this is a total kludge. (As is the document. At least there are photos but for cryin’ out loud I can take better ones.)
Oh, and there’s a slowdown because of the First Law and we might be losing some hours, meaning dollars. Uh huh. Perhaps I should contemplate a career change....
Good kitty. Did I mention there’s a convenience store & gas station right next to the hovel? Sometimes I dream of Molotov cocktails.
I'm just pooped after the very long commute. Email is way behind and I still have to prepare for the plate match this weekend. That's just the way it is.
2115 - Thursday, 26 February 2009: Snow. Half an inch on the car and none on the roads. But the sheeple panic anyway. (When I win the lottery and escape to Wyoming I figure on a hovercraft. ;)
Encore l’holy crap. The prags and defeatists are not grokking the guys-who-get-the-orders thing. Automatons they ain’t.
If a bunch of violent thugs broke into your house, you'd use whatever force was necessary to defend yourself and your home, right? Well, that depends on the particular flavor of thug. Many of you will be familiar with this case. Sometimes, eventually, the system works. But that's not the way to bet, and it's sure no comfort to granny. Do dig the comments on both WoG and Policeone. It really is them-vs.-us, and us didn't start the divide.
Seattle GRE, talking about something that peeves me, which I’ve mentioned before - sheeple reliance on third-party security like OnStar, ADT, or... blueshirts. None of whom will do anything more than dust for prints around your cooling corpse (which, as we've just seen, they may have been responsible for corspifying anyway). Which Workman says, in about so many words.
Sooo... we’re gonna have Obamavilles? Won’t that be interesting.
Perusing the February 1959 Guns magazine (mentioned earlier), I find an article on what appears to be the founding of what became the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, which sis and I visited. And if you think my portrayal of huge, celebrated shooting competitions is nothing but wish-fulfillment, continue to page 24 and see how the Swiss used to do it. I may have understated.
2116 - Friday, 27 February 2009: Finally direct deposit! No more running halfway across half of town at lunch on roads that don’t go anywhere to grab my check. Less exposure to revenuers too - there they were, at the end of the month with the city and county budgets - and, therefore, their quotas - due. Highway robbers in uniform, nothing but.
Still having trouble with the .NAME address since the switch to Cricket. It was a little flaky while still on Localnet but not like this. Maybe it’s a GoDaddy issue, eventually things go through both ways without changing settings. I think.
Reader sends. 1861. Got rifle? -Srsly, little indicators of resistance and rebellion are popping up all over. This could get bad.
MSM? Hah-hah.
Hussein is incompetent at best. I note the WND articles, on the soldiers questioning his Constitutional eligibility, also use the word "usurper". -Speaking of, even the flag ranks are raising the question - that makes three, just that are getting press. If you’re not bloody terrified you’re not paying attention, and if you’re not getting rifle practice you’re "lining up to be a hot lunch". We are on our way to civil war.
Film review. -Not unrelated. :(
Off early for lack of available work. Good, I need a few loose hours.
On a lighter note, now that I have broadband....
2117 - Saturday, 28 February 2009: Yech, rough night. Chills, fever, slight nausea. Something I ate maybe.
Plates! 2nd Revolver, of eight; the guy who beat me went on to win the match and, I can brag about this, I beat Breen (in that division). Didn't do near as well with the Witness, but that's not the pistol's fault, qualifying runs were good and I lost control in head-to-head. After, stayed to help Yuri tinker with his own Witness, which still ain't quite right, though it likes UMC factory just fine.
Cops are, increasingly, brutal sadistic thugs. Every day there's a new story like this. Gods only know how many get covered up. And what do the supposed "good cops" do? They get indignant and defend their thuggish colleagues, harassing and threatening anyone who dares point out the widespread thuggery. Them-vs.-us.
Rebellion. It comes.
Orwellian thought police. First the bigot cop pulling someone over for a bumper sticker, now this.
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