RIFLEMAN'S JOURNAL - SEPTEMBER 2010
The World Sucks
Codrea is keeping an eye on Portland. I have got to get out of this place....
So I'm reading Codrea's other GRE column for today and I see an advertisement:
Um....
Ummm....
Hey SMLE Fan, should I add Florida to the list of states to escape to? So I can live in Allen West's district? How's the quality-of-life down there for republitarian curmudgeons? (-Hey, that'd make a good post for yer own 'blog (in which you haven't posted for two weeks ;) ).)
This just in: Cops still hate citizens and want them to die. When's the last time you heard about a cop HELPING someone?
Government Makes Everything Worse Forever, Chapter MMDCXXXIV.
In Lighter News
Dunno if I'd call it "victory" - that would involve gaining ground - but, not-defeat in California. (With snark.)
One year for BTR!
Darwin Award Honorable Mention.
Road to Rio, Paramount 1949, fifth of the seven Crosby/Hope/Lamour Road pictures: Lamour: "I don't know what came over me. I found myself saying things and I didn't know why I was saying them." Hope: "Look, why don't you just run for congress and let us alone, huh?"
In the latest Shotgun News (v64#1), an article by Kokalis on the Elite 1911, made in the Philippines and imported by Century. Got one. Soft barrel bushing (possibly not the one it shipped with) and extractor (probably original) needed replacement, thumb safety needed Dremel, I forget exactly what was wrong with the original slide-stop, but the base model is $500-ish, and mine was under $400 used and is working very well now (if I stick with the real McCormick).
North Carolina is not on the list.
Meanwhile in Wyoming (of all places), crooked cop gets full pardon. As if any of us expect "justice" anymore.
Speaking of cops, who doesn't think this is targeted harrassment?
Speaking of harrassment, Quote o' the Day from an harrasser: “Officers’ safety comes first, and not infringing on people’s rights comes second,” [Lt. Fran] Healy[, special adviser to the police commissioner] said. Do you understand yet?
More on the Korean M1s. FWIW. (With snark.)
"Once is happenstance, twice is..." "I have become capable of believing the absolute worst about the US government...."
Meanwhile in "higher" "education".
Speaking of relocation, SMLE Fan describes Florida.
Janitor robots. Cheap energy. Beamed energy. Memory plastic. The future will get here, eventually.
More on North Carolina's prohibition from Des Moines GRE, and Charlotte GRE naturally.
Elitist hypocrisy in Tennessee.
Targeted persecution in New York. Behold the pattern. See where it leads.
Got a CostCo membership? It might get you killed.
You can't talk to those people. Their minds don't work right.
Codrea has more on persecution in Philadelphia. These are acts of war.
Ugh.
It's not. About. Safety.
Speaking of robbery-at-badgepoint, firefighters wear badges too, don't they? Made of some sociopathy-inducing kryptonite-analogue.... TJIC has loads more worldsuckage today BTW. (-Yah cheer me up some more why don't you....)
Special treatment for the Auxiliary Only Ones. And special mistreatment for the rest of us. -Though I note NRA might actually do a little something about it. Recent SAF successes (for which NRA has been claiming undeserved credit of course) might have embarrassed them?
Politics.... "Political capital", some of the careerists say, as though it's a finite resource they can run out of. Nuh-uh. My view of political capital is, the more you spend, the more you get. As in, "What have you done for me lately?" Obviously the redistributionists have figured this out, hauling in the pork for their own districts and getting reelected for decades, but Our Side can do it too - not with pork and favors but with upholding their oaths to the Constitution and taking a flamethrower to the out-of-control bramble of ever-encroaching government.
Of course this is an alien concept to most elected parasites. And particularly Wayne LaPierre.
Codrea keeps an eye on the candidates.
Outrage o' the Day: more discrimination against our troops.
Via Firehand, yet another example of out-of-control parasites. (We know what's needed....)
Show & chat every Sunday 1100PT. Featuring, locally on KBNP, some succinct, well-made audio spots for OFF.
Reader sends worldsuckage and unstable freaks in black robes. Is anyone in a position to help the victims? Someone in the northern Washington state I-5 area?
-Where's the real charge of kidnapping? Oh we know where: Codrea illuminates the double standard. (BTR has more.) Cops at every level, and the bureaucrats who give them their orders and sweep their crimes under the rug, are doing things every day which, 65 years ago, got people strung up in Nuremberg. There will be a reckoning.
You can't reason with those people. Their minds don't work right.
I view this as a new reason to boycott S&W.
And more yet on the Korean M1s.
Having some trouble with email, dunno what. Something's choking on something somewhere - after using mail2web to clear out the stuff I would've deleted anyway, MSOE then sometimes works properly. Outgoing mail seems unaffected.
This book is in my library hold queue. Since four months ago. They don't actually have it yet. But I am the very first on the waiting list.
Treason. The definition is very specific. And it appears to have been met.
Official bigotry in school.
Seattle GRE has more on discrimination against troops, as does Fort Smith GRE - who appeared to have deleted my comments several weeks ago - and even he, with a pattern of sucking up to badgethugs IMO, may finally be recognizing the enemy (ref). A little bit.
Speaking of discrimination. Permits ARE infringement.
Speaking of double standards. Who can't be trusted?
Yesterday I mentioned a reckoning. I want you to understand my full meaning.
Speaking of the enemy, RNS contemplates a possible cause.
Firehand vents explicitly on the Death Tax. Wth language.
Their minds don't work right.
Speaking of minds not working right, nuke Australia. >:-[
SMLE Fan comments on the Hugo awards.
Laser maser-launch rocket. Niven, et. al., were postulating this stuff 30-40 years ago (The Mote in God's Eye used it for an interstellar trip, and IIRC the First Man-Kzin War saw the Hairless Apes of Sol IIItm suddenly convert Sol System's laser-boost network to a defensive array.) Back when I still watched TV - a decade or more back - on some science show or other, I saw footage of a laser-launch test, again with a small-scale model. The problem is power, and, once you leave atmosphere, reaction mass. But these problems also can be solved; again, consider how long it used to take to cross the Atlantic. Nowadays you spend more time getting probulated than in transit.
Starting Niven & Lerner's Destroyer of Worlds, more Known Space Puppeteer-fleet-of-worlds going-back-and-filling-in-the-blanks stuff, this one dealing with the Pak. And you know whose ancestors they are. -What gun for Protector? 8-|
Yet another embarrassingly large reader donation. Selling stuff at the show this weekend should cover the rest of the immediate expenses.
Still having trouble with email. Sometimes MSOE works, sometimes not, can't figure why. Maybe GoDaddy is juggling servers or something.
More on guns & Mexico.
And, our government hasn't been "representative" for a long time.
You may remember the Illinois (natürlich) pol who said the Constitution doesn't matter to him. BTR keeps an eye on.
And then there's this. If you oppose armed-robbery-in-uniform you're racist?
"We have a legal system. Not a justice system."
Related in a larger sense, it's not about "safety" or "health" or "service", it's about control.
It's not about guns, IT'S ABOUT CONTROL.
Sink the Island... mostly.
AUTOMAG. -See, when I win Powerball and set up my CNC proto-fabber affordable-reproduction business in Wyoming, this is one of the first products we'll offer. And I'll contract with Starline or someone to include 100 200 pieces virgin brass (and a nice set of dies from someone else) with every one sold.
Speaking of handloading, I think it was Redding who, a year or so ago, introduced a die - in .40S&W (and presumably 10x25mm) only - to remove bulges from spent cases. Well, those aren't the only cartridges which get bulges, and Lee has noticed. -Ah, I get it, it's an adapter for the Factory Crimp Die you already have. Hm, I suspect the .380ACP piece might work on .223 as well. And the .45 might work on the .308/'06 family. So you don't need small-base dies!
Still no job.
MSOE FAIL continues. Sometimes it works, and I'm not changing stuff on this end, so I suspect servers.
From Patriot Post, Quote o' the Day:
"Once you take it as a given that the government has an important say in what you do with your property or put in your body, a whole universe of appalling actions and apologia becomes possible. ... We can and will talk about what rights need to be reasserted, what programs need to be cut, what sectors of this American life need to be left ... alone. But until we make a dent in the widespread notion that there always has to be some type of government structure or some taxpayer-financed watchdog to police every imaginable peaceable transaction, any contemplated fix to the mess we're in will be temporary at best." - Reason editor Matt Welch (RTWT)
And: "Coolidge is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone." - American humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935)
Do you get it? The law is wrong. The idea of the law is wrong.
Now think about what kind of people experience such gloating glee enforcing The Law. Reap that whirlwind, badge-scum. A day is coming when we will treat you just like you've been treating us.
"Law". Bah. When's the last time you heard of a cop helping anyone? People don't become cops to help people, they become cops to beat people up and steal their stuff.
And Firehand points out another stick with which to bludgeon the peasants.
Codrea has an eye on that Senate hearing everyone's excited about.
"We know it doesn't work." It's not. About. "Safety". Certainly not about our safety.
Speaking of boycotts.
"I just gave myself a sad." Yeah, you gave me one too.
Is NRA being shamed into actual action? For a change?
Borepatch fisk-snarks the Warmists.
The light at the end of this tunnel is cities burning. -Oh hey....
More discrimination against our troops.
Quote o' the Day: "When people revel in forcing their neighbors to comply with the brute force of Government instead of offering assistance, times have indeed changed."
The Firearm Blog's stated purpose is, "Firearms not Politics". And Steve, there, is quite good about it. But since Caveman Ugh picked up the first antelope femur and objected to the rape of his wife and daughters by Chief Og, weapons and politics have been irrevocably linked. It's about control.
And we know who doesn't have any.
I haven't been paying much attention to the Koran-burning issue but this sums up my position.
Looks like the email thing has resolved itself.
JPFO strikes again.
I don't know what's happening with GunPal/GPal. I have an account, through which I have received one (1) donation with no difficulty.
Interesting discussion on alternatives to thugs-with-badges. And more here. You can guess which way I'm leaning.
"The Prophet has commanded us to rule the world. ...Where are your warriors? You dare call yourselves sons of the Prophet? ...Burn your books. Make warriors of your poets. Let your doctors invent new poisons for our arrows. Let your scientists invent new war machines. And then, kill! Burn!" - Emir Ben Yussuf, El Cid, Samuel Bronston Productions 1961
Remembrances from:
Borepatch (two) PJM Hope n' Change Mallard Fillmore
The World Sucks in Other Ways Too
NRAWOL, again.
Did adequately at the show. Cruffler delivered two Large Institutional-Size Loaves of Bread donated from one reader, and a couple other readers stopped by and bought something. After, Yuri very generously bought me a burger while herding weresquirrels. Which may or may not be distantly related to direkittehs. About which he should be posting presently.
I can haz groceries....
Also at the show, a reader mentioned, and presently emailed, this news item illustrating that, as we've been saying for generations, Armed Self-Defense Works.
Speaking of GunPal/GPal, Oleg Volk appears to be on the BoD. Which IMO is quite an endorsement all by itself.
FRICKIN' TRACTOR BEAMS and NEURAL INTERFACES. Sorta kinda. Baby steps....
You know, the cocoa powder in MREs is, IMO, actually quite good. (The "beverage base powder" in assorted "fruit" "flavors", not.)
My $ubscription to Shotgun News will be expiring in a couple more issues, but in the current issue, v64#26, after the dead-tree publishing lag, is this column from Suprynowicz about the arbitrary murder of the West Pointer in a Vegas CostCo. Then I found this more typical example of a cop believing he has a license to kill and his murderous buddies backing him up. Killing cops on sight would not be murder. It would be animal control.
Yeah. We know. Who's racist.
More yet on the deliberate disenfranchisement of our troops, who have more right to vote than anyone.
Reminder: Mike Vanderboegh is now in a position very similar to the one I found myself in earlier this year. Since, evidently, it is not yet time to shoot the bastards, send him some money instead.
Nuke. Britain. 'Til. It. Glows.
Gratuitous non sequitur o' the Day, from Road to Bali, Paramount 1952, Bob Hope to Bing Crosby: "I don't trust you or the sheep."
Show & chat every Sunday 1100PT.
Codrea comments on pols' comments in the October 1960 Guns magazine (archive).
Today's B.C. can be interpreted as a slap against pacifism. At least by me.
Codrea has more on Harry Reid.
And he keeps an eye on that senate hearing.
Why do we hate cops? Here are a couple graphic examples. They really do deserve to be executed for their crimes. But I would be generous; rope and a quick drop, as opposed to the rape, torture, electrocution and plunder they take such sadistic pleasure inflicting on us.
Government Makes Everything Worse Forever, Chapter MMDCXLVI.
The November 2010 issue of Guns is now available. Including some Brit-bashing in Codrea's Rights Watch column.
Waaaaant. (And something to put it on of course.) Note the multiple features - tanto point for piercing strength, serrated segment for sawing, wire-cutter when combined with scabbard, and the other angles and offsets are probably there for reasons too. And of course, note the direction of the cutting edge. Sigh, probably a week's wages which I'm not earning anyway....
Some people are waking up.
Walking past a Mongolian grill (which I can't afford to eat at :( ) the other day, I was thinking of exactly this.
On Oleg Volk's recommendation from some moons ago, I'm viewing the recent film about this lesser-known bit of mass murder. "The executions were usually performed with German-made 7,65 mm Walther PPK pistols supplied by Moscow, but 7.62x38R Nagant M1895 revolvers were also used. The executioners used German weapons rather than the standard Soviet revolvers, as the latter were said to offer too much recoil, which made shooting painful after the first dozens of executions." Contemplate the mechanics of it, the calculation. Bundy? Dahmer? Hannibal fictional Lecter? Amateur children. It takes a government to really pile up the corpses.
And there's always someone volunteering for the job. It starts so small, so normal, so "innocent"; someone who thinks - or claims - they're only trying to help, "just doing my job", "just obeying the law", "just following orders" - someone whose primary goal is "the smooth and efficient processing of cases." The kind of person who needs power over others, and the kind of person who needs someone in power over them, to give them permission, justification, excuse.
For a visual aid, see the Bieser cartoon on the front page of the latest Wisconsin Gun Owners newsletter. We are not that kind of person. But that kind does seem to be drawn to certain professions.
More yet on NRAWOL and Reid. (And another Bieser cartoon in the aforementioned WGO newsletter.)
Kidnapping and ransom. Ya know, old TJ knew when to send in the Marines. And so did TR, though with more ambiguous results.
Tyranny. The federal government telling private businesses to shut up or be destroyed. History does repeat itself.
"Law." Bah.
More on the Grier case in New York. Self defense is a human right. And they don't see us as human.
There are so many convictions and seizures and armed-robberies-in-uniform which should never have happened. So many real criminals whose rotting corpses should be swinging from streetlights....
Things like this actually give me a sad. First because I can't afford it, second because even if I could, some thug with a badge would come steal it at gunpoint, then I'd have to kill the thief in righteous self defense, then fifty more uniformed gangsters would come along to burn the hovel down around me. ...But, like Patton said to Bradley (in the movie) about the uniform he designed, "God damn, it was beautiful."
More Guns, Less Crime. We knew that.
And Sink the Island, but not all of it.
More on GunPal.
"Fairness"? "Distribution of wealth"? "From each according to their ability, to each according to their need"? Never.
"Your paycheck or your life"?
What was I saying the other day about political capital?
Arbitrary age limits, phooey. I've known 12-year-olds I'd trust behind me with live grenades, and 40-year-olds I wouldn't trust in front of me with a plastic spork.
Slope, slippery, one (1) each. Prohibition always does more harm than good.
You know what's needed here? I mean right here in Portland, Oregon? Great big dams on the Willamette and Columbia Rivers, to Sink the Island City. Or, you know, a meteor strike.
Stossel on government school, again.
The other day I linked to the federal government threatening businesses who don't go along with the redistributionist agenda. Now there's a city government threatening to shut off water to private homes for a similar reason. Where are the torches and pitchforks and nooses? WHERE!?
Aaaaand the Halloween headsplodyness begins on schedule.
Oh look, even more blame-the-victim from our Stalwart Defenders of Public (Employee) Safety. Rope. Streetlights.
Clicking through SMLE Fan's post from yesterday to the Reason article, on the third page I found another money quote, from Gura, referring to the 33 state attorneys general who filed an amicus brief with him: "It’s rare to see a government official claiming they should be bound by some constitutional limitation." Rare indeed.
Quote o' the Day: "Anytime some schmuck tells you that you aren't allowed to be armed for any reason, you really need to ask yourself WHY does said schmuck want you unarmed and defenseless? What exactly is said schmuck planning to do to you that works better when you can't defend yourself?" Yeah we know what. -Somewhere in one of the early Founding Documents - like one of the original state Constitutions - there was a requirement to read the thing in public, like, yearly. Personally I prefer a more monumental approach.
Alien planets....
It's been a long, long time - like 20+ years - since I ate anything from KFC. I just don't dig fried chicken, with the grease and the bones and whatnot. But this here doesn't have those things and does have BACON.
All these injustices... to whom do we appeal? "Higher" "authority"? If a city cop is abusing his power, do you go to the county sheriff? Birds of a feather. State police? Ditto - all they care about is the swagger and the revenue. FBI? Suuuure, the gang that burned children and murdered a nursing mother, they can be trusted to take the side of a peasant against their Brothers in the Law Enforcement Community. Your congressman? Bwa. Ha. Ha. Government is not the solution, it is the problem. The founders knew this. Their spirits spit on us.
Where we're headed. And yes, we appear to be going there in a handbasket.
Exercise Constitutional rights, get on a terror list. Stalin's body died in '53 but his evil mass-murdering spirit is alive and well.
There is still some difference between Republicans and Democrats. And dueling should never have been outlawed.
This would be funny if the heavily armed gang of sociopaths weren't treating their employers exactly the same way.
Yyyyyeah who's "intolerant"?
The Great Repealing. A very good idea. I've already mentioned it in passing.
Never. Trust. A cop. They are all liars and thieves.
And back-shooting murderers.
And incompetent, if not deliberately sadistic. Take another look at that Bieser cartoon. Think about what kind of people want to be cops.
Yeah we know who's "intolerant". And yet, American Jews vote for this stuff, give money to the campus, support the same candidates as the anti-semitic students, etc. WTF!?
"The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." -Like I was saying at the show last weekend, while trying to sell stuff, it's the Second Great Depression.
And that may be the best we can hope for. There are worse possibilities.
Frickin' laser beams....
Government effing school. See also comments. Burn them all down. For the children.
And I see something else in need of incendiary therapy. This is exactly the kind of behavior the 2nd Amendment is meant to deter, and when deterrence fails, end.
SMLE Fan has a wee bit of SMLE pr0n.
Quote o' the Day, from Victor Davis Hanson's Carnage and Culture, Anchor Books 2002; Chapter Ten, Dissent and Self-Critique - Tet, January 31-April 6, 1968: "Most media accounts of postwar Vietnam did not suggest that the peace was more costly to Southeast Asia than was war against the Americans, that communist officials killed or drove out far more of their own countrymen in twenty-four months than had the Americans in a decade of fighting."
A hundred years of plunder, rapine and genocide, every single time and place it's been tried, and they still wear Mao t-shirts and fly North Vietnam flags. They cannot be reasoned with. Their Minds Don't Work Right.
Cops are scum in Canada too.
Speaking of a hundred years, bonus Serenity reference.
Finished Niven & Lerner's Destroyer of Worlds. The authors cannot be accused of thinking small. -To answer the question, What Gun for Protector... a bigger one.
Mid-term exams elections loom. Study.
Suing cops... frankly I'd prefer rope. It costs the innocent taxpayers less. And the criminal thugs don't get a shiny new badge and truncheon in some other jurisdiction.
Related... reader sends: "I think Cops have behaved badly enough, long enough that it has entered the culture as a meme. As evidence I submit this Direct TV commercial where a cop training a rookie goes to the house of a member of his fantasy football league and tases him for using Direct TV to follow the players' stats." THINK about what kind of people want to be cops.
On the show yesterday, host Tom Gresham mentioned this story, which I just had to send to Codrea. "Lining up to be a hot lunch."
Boycott Airlines, Chapter MMDCLIII.
In chat yesterday an Elf asked what was happening with Vanderboegh's novel Absolved. He's just now posted a new chapter, but I'm refraining from reading it 'cause I'd rather wait for the whole book.
I've been casting my own handgun bullets for a while now, with acceptable results. I notice there's an article on casting in the latest American Handgunner magazine, which is now available. Another back-burner project is to add a casting page to my reloading pages.
I also see an article on Zoot Shooters, which I had postulated a couple years ago as Vintage Retro 3-Gun before I knew it already existed.
And I don't think the Webley is ugly. It has character. Hard to find an original .455, which hasn't been cut down for .45ACP in clips, anywhere between the extremes of lump-of-rust and you-can't-afford-it.
One temp service isn't returning my calls anymore and another seems to think I'm all icky 'cause now I have a record for "violating" an unConstitutional "law".
"Why are so many anti-gun mayors criminals?" Well... duh.
Quote o' the Month: Asimov once said “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” One of Heinlein / Niven / Pournelle famously responded “Right. The competent don’t wait that long.”
WoGged again.
Via WoG, Quote o' the Day: "Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes." - P.J. O'Rourke, A Parliament of Whores
Get yer CMP M1. Most awesomest rifle evar. -Well, top five, even 74 years on.
On the cover of my next-to-la$t issue of Shotgun News is a semi-automatic sturmgewehr. I had the privilege of handling an original at the annual two-day OAC show a few years ago. Back then I noticed, and now I notice again, a couple small features familiar to modern gunfolk: an ejection port cover and magazine catch functionally identical to those on the AR15. Reading the article I now find it has a tilting-bolt arrangement very similar to the Simonov, while the gas system - a long piston directly attached to the bolt carrier - reminds me of the Kalashnikov. Both of which the sturmgewehr pre-dates, looking back to the Mkb42 prototypes. -Although, there were Simonov self-loaders, using much the same lockup, as far back as the 1930s.
I'm screwed.
Please help?
A year or three ago I was rememberizing the stirring final scene of a WWII movie I'd seen once. It was Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent, UA 1940, and the last lines are: "I can't read the rest of the speech I had because the lights have gone out, so I'll just have to talk off the cuff. All that noise you hear isn't static. It's death coming to London. Yes, they're coming here now, you can hear the bombs falling on the streets and the homes. Don't tune me out; hang on a while, this is a big story and you're part of it. It's too late to do anything here now except stand in the dark and let them come. It's as if the lights were all out everywhere - except in America. Keep those lights burning. Cover them with steel, ring them with guns, build a canopy of battleships and bombing planes around them. Hello, America! Hang on to your lights! They're the only lights left in the world!" And they still are.
But even these lights are dimming. Back in October 2007 I commented about a sociopath with a badge, who sued the parents of a drowned child for injuries sustained during the rescue attempt. What kind of inhuman ghoul could even imagine such a thing? Unfortunately, as a reader points out and I forwarded, the phenomenon is not unique. And where are the "good" cops restraining and weeding out these sadistic perverts? There. Are. None.
Another light dimming: What kind of ignorant servile scum, to borrow a line from Band of Brothers, are incapable of conceiving of doing anything without government permission?
And another, on the Long March toward totalitarianism, controlling all "private" property until it can't be called private anymore. Test FAIL.
Ditto the British paycheck thing everyone's been 'blogging. The entire island should be carpet-nuked, if an idea like this can even be stated aloud in parliament.
Another yet: "The [disorderly conduct] statute does not require an actual disturbance take place, only that conduct in question is of a type that tends to cause or provoke a disturbance.... Chief Wray wants to make clear: It is the department's wish that concerned citizens call 911 when they see armed subjects ["Subjects"? "Citizens"? Freudian slip?].... It is my expectation that [Madison Police Department] officers encountering individuals who are armed with firearms in public places will take a pro-enforcement approach. If the investigation shows probable cause for a violation, the suspect should be arrested or cited." They actively search for excuses to destroy innocent people's lives.
Or end them. Cops are a nationwide gang of liars, thieves, rapists and murderers. They must be dealt with as such.
DISCLOSE Act again. Like any of them listen to any of us anymore: "There’s an old Capitol Hill joke that if the Democrats voted to shred the Constitution, the Republicans would vote for a compromise to phase the shredding in over six months."
The lights are going out.
More on CMP M1s.
Rear sights.... All these Back-Up-Iron-Sights I see advertised for your StubbyLittleCarbine's ÜberTacPicRail, with few exceptions they're adjustable for windage only. A century and a half ago it had been figured out that once the windage is set you can mostly leave it the hell alone, and it's elevation adjustment you need when engaging targets at different distances. "At one hundred yards...." [redcoats at Rorke's Drift check & adjust their rear sights] "Volley fire, present- FIRE!" Sigh, Expensive Crap Designed by People Who Never Have to Use It. (What do they do when the batteries die?) Yes there are w&e A2-type sights, or simply the whole carry handle, available. That's what I'd get.
The next IPSC shoot - presuming I'm not homeless by then - is at Wolverton on Halloween, four stages, which for that outfit is typically about 75 rounds. I have the components, just have to assemble them. Last time Yuri & I got cool video. Fiddling with VLC, I appear to have figured out how to save video from a source file into an output file at different speeds. Quality, after all that mangling, may not be much, but my Canon A580 provides quite good raw .AVI to start with - so around Election Day I hope to have Cool Slow-Motion Action Handgun Videotm. It seems VLC can create a time-lapse effect the same way, pressing "+" instead of "-", like to illustrate match setup or a long drive to the range or use yer imagination. I coulda been a filmmaker....
There are new models of digital cameras, or at least camcorders, with actual slow-motion modes, with a multiplied frame rate for quality. Oleg Volk was inquiring about same on his 'blog a few months ago. Expensive of course.
These parasites - including, of course, "members of the police force" - were raking in the loot for years until even they couldn't hide it anymore. And I can't get a gods-damned job making gods-damned widgets. As the internet says, Foxtrot Mike Lima.
Codrea has more on DISCLOSE. So, it failed? Supermajority? Like it matters, they'll make up some other way to screw us.
Dr. Pournelle also notes the dimming of the lights.
The lights are out in Britain.
BTR comments on Codrea's article yesterday, and NRAWOL, specific to Iowa.
TJIC has the Image o' the Day. -Ya know, that actually used to work in this country. What happened?
Seriously? WTF happened?
G&C is keeping an eye on the Wisconsin bigotry.
There are no good cops. There aren't. The other kind has driven them to extinction.
We. Know. Who's. Racist.
Their. Minds. Don't. Work. Right.
Another shockingly generous reader donation - the same reader, over and over - has put a significant dent in the upcoming rent, but further help is deeply appreciated and, um, desperately needed because a utilities bill arrived in snailmail the same damn day. Anyone wanna buy some ad space? Have I mentioned I have some rather nice reloading pages of informational value?
Speaking of making movies. $igh....
Still. No. Job.
More yet from Wisconsin. Suing police is little more than shuffling stolen tax dollars - they'll just write more tickets or "seize" more private property on "anonymous" tips of "contraband". Hang them. It's the only way to stop them from ever doing it again.
And again and again. HANG. THEM.
Nor is the murder of Erik Scott going away - note comment: "If there is no safety following the police instructions then you might as well come out shooting!"
("There is no advantage in cooperating with the Japanese police....")
As for how we got to this sorry state of affairs, the Quote o' the Day spells it out.
And let's not forget government schools. A lot of folks in NEA, Department of Education, and the teachers' unions need rope too.
Michigan Firearms Examiner has more M1 stuff.
Yes, actually, this is rather spooky.
Something else occurs to me, concerning the Erik Scott murder - now the cops have West Point mad at them. And by extension and association VMI, the Citadel, Annapolis, Colorado Springs... Our Side's odds in the next civil war may, in a macabre way, have just improved.
OTOH this is sounding more and more like The Troubles of Heinlein's Future History....
Speaking of murder, as I type, a short drive from the hovel, an open carry picnic is being held in Vancouver. I'm for it, of course... but these days, these brave and innocent citizens are literally risking their lives by exercising their natural human rights. I hope they have some riflemen on overwatch.
It will come to that. And we are better shots.
Prohibition FAIL, Chapter MMDCLVIII. Sigh....
Crapping where they eat. Why do we have cops? What are they for?
Umm....
Ever more bigotry in Wisconsin. Not escaping to that state.
Bigotry elsewhere too. And not just against Our Kind, but it's all of a kind. WRSA has the Image o' the Day. It's about CONTROL. They must be stopped.
And o' the Day, Mallard has the other Image.
Show & chat every Sunday 1100PT, this week live from Gun Rights Policy Conference.
In praise of open carry. I know Wyoming has tried to get Constitutional Carry recently....
SavaShip praises reloading. In this economy, and with increasing restrictions, who doesn't reload? -People who never go shooting, that's who.
Cryotechnology for medical emergencies? Working on it.
"Call the cops"? Dial 911 and Die (ref).
SavaShip (who BTW has joined the Elves) asks a pertinent question: "...if the Illinois State Police had to watch a Sheriff to find out what he's doing... who's watching the Illinois State Police?" Of course this is not a new question. Yyyyeah, those are the people you're supposed to call when you need help....
And this right here is why we hate them. How many more violations must we suffer before we respond in kind?
NRAWOL, Chapter MMDCLX.
Via TJIC: "Isn't it great to live in a society where the penalty for lying to a congressman can be up to 30 years in jail, but the penalty for a congressman lying to you is another two years in office."
And the hippies hate Bush because he was doing what with their emails?
Authorized Journalists. Again.
All gunfolk know about Kennesaw. This seems to be a reasonably fair report until you get to the Obligatory Bigotry o' the Day: "...I am afraid I might enjoy it."
Speaking of bigotry. Remember the Boxes of Freedom? What comes after the Jury Box? 'Cause it's just been scratched off the list.
I see that Cheyenne GRE Bouchard's outfit is still trying to get Constitutional Carry in Wyoming (state HB0113, which appears to have died for this year in WY's blessedly-but-in-this-instance-frustratingly-short legislative session). If I had money I'd send them some.
If I had money I'd be there....
More M1 stuff. (Praise and Blessings Upon Tucson Tom the Beneficent.)
GRPC AAR.
Yuri gave me a couple bags of cans & bottles for deposit. With that, and the coin jar, I think I barely have enough for rent and utilities and nothing else.
*&^%$ Bloomberg, Chapter MMDCLXI.
NRAWOL in Iowa, Chapter Umptyleven. Sigh.
"Law"? What "law"? There is no shelter in or appeal to law.
Because it's never been about safety, it's always been about control. Once in a very great while the system does work, but that's not the way to bet.
Remember, I calculated: One in 7.5.
Speaking of control, G&C is keeping an eye on Madison still.
Tam groks the System.
SMLE Fan observes that their minds don't work right.
Oh dear, Weber fumbles? Well, that'll free up a slot in my library hold queue. Meanwhile, starting Drake's latest RCN, What Distant Deeps.
Not exactly lighter news but not belonging in the worldsuckage: Mike V. discovers, as I have, the humbling generosity of curmudgeonly republitarian gunfolk - and posts a Rodger Young video just days after I finished my latest re-read of Starship Troopers.
$tre$$....
NRAWOL, Chapter MMDCLXII, sigh. (But meanwhile in Iowa...?)
Speaking of Iowa, there is no equality under the law. A thousand sets of rules for us, none at all for them.
What was it the Austrian corporal said about big lies?
Scrolling down from yesterday's entry, Pournelle has the Quote o' the Day: "It is the duty of the Commander in Chief to make it clear to the Legions why they are engaged, and what they must do." Surely this one has failed, and the previous as well methinks.
Prohibition causes more problems than it solves. ALWAYS.
Speaking of minds not working right, we know who's racist. It's difficult to imagine them actually believing what they're saying.
Stossel also notes it's not about safety. And how many cops do you see every day, yakking and grinning on their (probably tax-paid) cell phones while driving their (definitively tax-paid) copmobiles, who would very happily rob a week's wages from you at gunpoint for doing the exact same thing?
Speaking of cops, I think I've already linked the latest graphic dog-killing story. Robb Allen snarks and Sipsey St. asks the question. These are acts of war. When do we fight back?
Speaking of Constitutional Carry.
Armed Self Defense Works. We know that. -And I've been boycotting Pizza Hut (and Domino's, same policy) for years; this is at least the third such incident and the victim can expect to be fired.
Nerve regeneration? Working on it.
Alien Frickin' Planets? FOUND. But at a 37-day orbit it's a small star, possibly without enough of the right kind of radiation to zap life into being - even if it's in the habitable zone it may just be a rock. Or have a very narrow habitable strip, since it's tidally locked - several authors, not least Niven, have written of such. Still, they've finally managed to find one the right size in the right place. There will be others.
Britain sucks, we know, graphic examples every day, even movies about the suckage now. But, 70-odd years ago, Britain produced some real men... and real women.
Speaking of formerly-great British, Kipling is a verb. To Kipple. -First sis still has my big thick 1920s Kipling book, but pretty much all his stuff can be found around the web.
But... why? Why put the charging handle way up where the HKs and CETMEs have it and folks have to shift around to reach it (including losing the American-style shooting-sling setup (which no one else uses (which is why real American riflemen can kick everyone else's ass (if the damn bureaucrats stay out of the damn way))))? Why remove positive chambering by eliminating the reciprocating charging handle? It's a *&^%ing Kalashnikov! Leave it the hell alone!
OTOH this is just cyoooot. Clicking through one sees it does have an extractor, and looking closely one sees it retains the Remington-percussion-style safety notches between chambers.
Drake still writes yummy. The science may not be as hard as I would otherwise prefer, but the "enormous package of reality" (Lucas on Tony Daniels/C3PO) Drake, as a Vietnam combat veteran, brings to his storytelling, more than makes up for it. -I was discussing the hardness of SF with a friend just yesterday in fact, who is also a Vietnam veteran (boats IIRC). He's also a Browncoat and pointed out that Firefly's science had soft bits too... but again, story, depth of character.
I have the rent and utilities bill covered, and $5.36 left in my checking account. I do not have the internet or any subsequent bills covered, and still no income. (In the current job market, White Males Need Not Apply.)
Meanwhile in Chicago New York Boston San Francisco Baltimore Zimbabwe....
Things used to be different. We're not the ones who changed.
They changed. I repeat, think about what kind of people want to be cops.
Meanwhile in Madison, the stolen-tax-dollar-shuffling progresses. -Not that I oppose the suit, the way the corrupt system is arranged it's the only practical way to even try to get some so-called "justice" - I'd just prefer there were rope involved.
Because there are no good cops. And there is no longer any peaceable way to deal with the other kind.
Meanwhile on TV. I see Goebbels is alive and well and working as a vice-president of programming at CBS. (With deputies and assistants in other places.) -Bombing a cop funeral is inefficient and irresponsible; like burning their houses down. It's not the neighbors', or the gravediggers', fault they're living or working next to sadistic perverted murderous fascists. We have more precise methods. I've pointed out before, indiscriminately slaughtering the wife & kids & innocent bystanders & the little dog too is what they do.
Related (It's! All! Related!), Quote o' the Day.
Government health care is not about "health" or "care".
Speaking of The One, VDH examines. -Sigh, the average "conservative" will think, "Haw, he's-a-gonna-imploohhde!", but those of us with some knowledge of history are aware of what desperate egomaniacs are capable of. And I'm'a gettin' too old and creaky for that Red Dawn stuff.
Related to that, Remember November. Remember also this cartoon found in a Dillon catalog a couple cycles ago:
But will there be any more "elections"? And will they matter?
Meanwhile in the military, Heinlein was Navy, not Infantry, but I imagine this is causing his ash particles to rotate.
I've noted as much before, linking other articles and observing my own experiences in action-handgun competition, magazines are the weak point in any autoloading firearm. This a fundamental truth of the guniverse. For my single-column 1911, I use McCormick. And that's one less thing to worry about.
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