RIFLEMAN'S JOURNAL - OCTOBER 2010
The World Sucks
Yesterday I contemplated what a desperate egomaniac might be capable of. BTR gets the reference. An American Holodomor probably won't happen....
Probably....
Speaking of egomaniacs, Quote o' the Day: If technology keeps improving, cops are going to have to -stop breaking laws -stop threatening to murder people who catch them breaking laws -stop lying under oath about breaking laws and threatening to murder people who catch them breaking laws
Yeah like that's ever gonna happen....
Meanwhile in Madison. I'm serious. Rope.
Remember the line that used to exist between satire and official government policy? It was erased some time ago, but now they've got Winston and his fellow drones at Minitrue hunting down every hint it ever existed and flushing them down the memory hole.
Meanwhile on the Firearms Freedom Act front....
In Lighter News
Candidate ratings from GOA. ...And NRA.
More open carry in Washington state, after yet another encounter with armed-robbers-in-uniform which went as expected.
Mexico, still. Big lies....
More on the warmist cult's totalitarian fantasies. "At the bottom of every syrupy sweet intention is a gun pointed at your head." Are you prepared to defend yourself? (I have a 16Mb .FLV saved for posterity BTW, since they're going all Minitrue on the original now.)
Speaking of totalitarians. "This is what happens when one part of the government 'investigates' another part of that same government." Do you understand yet?
They seem to. They obviously realize they can literally get away with random murder. There are no good cops. Only sadistic socipathic perverts who enjoy causing terror and suffering. They cannot be reasoned with; their own system of so-called "justice" cannot be trusted to restrain them; their colleagues can be trusted to protect them.
We must stop thinking of them as human beings whose lives have value. They stopped thinking of us that way long ago. A state of war exists.
Meanwhile on the border, job opportunity! But who will write the Letter of Marque? Certainly not this openly treasonous administration.
Codrea on NRA candidate ratings. For what they're worth.
Now, at first examination this might seem imprudent: intending to fire a single shot one inadvertently looses a burst, possibly resulting in muzzle climb and loss of control of the weapon and all sorts of rule-breaking. But on further consideration I'd call that a training issue. Tactically it's starting to make sense to me - one less control to keep track of, one less button or lever to be left in an inappropriate position, both modes instantly available without switching anything. Hm.
Show & chat every Sunday 1100PT. Missed most of it myself due to emotional exhaustion and an unwillingness to crawl out of bed to acknowledge the existence of the real world.
Nor am I the only gunblogger on whom the universe is incessantly crapping.
Via BTR, 'Toon o' the Day.
Reader sends a uniquely American political statement. (Now watch him get pulled over, robbed, and possibly murdered by some affirmative-action-hire law enFORCEment officer....)
They put a beeper on a booster. We walked on the frickin' Moon.
Still no job. 8-(
More yet on open carry armed robbery in uniform. When are we going to start killing these thieves in self-defense? -Commenter suggests an appeal to law. What "law"?
Meanwhile in Portland, cops object to drug testing... of cops. I wonder why? -In comments I see it's not just me saying there are no good cops.
Really. There aren't. -And there's another data point, ewww. (And at least one more (of ten) on Friday.)
And what about the SPCA angle?
Meanwhile in the GOP. When's the last time anyone here voted for instead of against anyone or anything?
More yet on Firearms Freedom Acts.
Evidently there is a way to test your handloads' pressure without industrial equipment. One wonders how accurate it is, from one rifle to another, with all that metallurgy and dimensional stuff - can the software really tell the difference between a .223 in a new-ish Remington 700 and .45-70 blackpowder in a vintage '73 Trapdoor?
Transterrestrial has the Animated .GIF o' the Day.
Random Awesome o' the Day: "Striding up and down the lines, he fired at the enemy with a pistol in each hand and his presence there bolstered the spirits of the men, encouraged them in their fight and sustained them in their heroic stand. Even after he was seriously wounded, Lt. Col. O'Brien refused to be evacuated and after his pistol ammunition was exhausted, he manned a .50 caliber machinegun, mounted on a jeep, and continued firing. When last seen alive he was standing upright firing into the Jap hordes that were then enveloping him. Some time later his body was found surrounded by enemy he had killed." That man has his own reserved table in Valhalla. Odin calls him by his first name.
But that's not the kind of story the entertainment industry wants told....
What kind of people don't want you to be able to defend yourself? And why?
Armed Robbery in Uniform, Chapter MMDCLXVIII. It's not about safety.
It's about this: "...if you engage in legal activity that the police don’t like you get arrested on bullshit charges. When it becomes obvious those charges don’t fit the situation they drop them and charge you with other bullshit charges."
Do? You? Understand?
Too often, and more often, "law is but the tyrant's will". But also often, it's just too dumb for words. And you're paying for it.
Meanwhile in the voting booth, the official OFF endorsement is None of the Above.
Blah.
NRAWOL, Chapter MMDCLCIX. Sigh.
This just in: Europe still sucks, and some people want us to be just like them.
Rope. Lots of rope.
More rope: "Iowans boarding Amtrak trains on Friday should be prepared to see law officers with guns drawn as part of a nationwide 'surge' in passenger train security." What could possibly go wrong?
More yet on the warmists' murder fantasies. They don't see us as human. Remember I saved the video (16Mb, view with VLC) for posterity if you're having trouble finding it.
And we know who's racist.
Aaand meanwhile in the religion of peace. One doesn't need specific examples anymore.
SWAT teams (and the run-of-the-mill thugs who fantasize about being same).... They spend a couple thousand tax dollars on every single top-brand G36/MP10/black-rifle-du-jour in the inventory, and they fire them... how much in qualification? On what course of fire? And we've long established they couldn't hit a barn from inside with the doors closed. Whereas we scrape up six or seven hundred for a pieced-together AR with bits that rattle, or five or six hundred for a CMP M1 (though some of us get unimaginably lucky) with Greek soldiers' names still carved in the stock, and we shoot thousands of rounds a year (which we handload 'cause we don't have tax-slaves buying factory rounds for us) and get nationally ranked among people who really know how to hit stuff on purpose. As SMLE Fan intimated, someone is in for a big surprise.
FWIW: I've been getting some unidentified calls on my cell - the screen says "Private". For a couple weeks. I've been ignoring them. The other day I got an email from GPal which states in part: "It has come to our attention that several GPal users have been contacted on phone numbers not listed at GPal by persons with blocked caller-IDs, claiming to be our CEO Ben Cannon leaving derogatory or even threatening messages, or asking for user information. These sorts of attacks may be an attempt to gain your personal information in order to access your GPal account." Hm.
From the Tor Books e-newsletter I see there's another, Betrayer of Worlds, in Niven & Lerner's Fleet of Worlds series due soon. Also, a new Heinlein biography. Still alarmed by the review of Weber's latest though.
Who can't be trusted with guns?
MSM still doesn't get it.
You may remember the sheriff ordered to take a remedial course on the Constitution after discriminatorily denying a carry permit (permits are infringement...). B minus.
VFW WTF?
Ecofreaks' murder fantasies continue. This is beyond just "creepy". They are saying, out loud, in as many words, they hate you and want you to die. What, then, is the functional difference between the warmist cult and, say, Einsatzgruppen or Khmer Rouge? They are openly calling for genocide.
Illustrative Quote o' the Day: "Arresting drunk drivers makes money, arresting murderers and rapists does not." It's not about safety.
"ENOUGH ALREADY."
Speaking of ENOUGH, your tax-paid government-run public schools are going openly Orwellian. Rope. And fire.
Speaking of the Bill of Rights, St. Louis GRE connects the first two bits. It's not a buffet table. Our freedom of speech must include theirs.
Firehand posts real live rust-bluing. Which might be useful when we're turning out volkspistolen up in the sticks while dodging Federals and Hessians.
Fusion power? Still working on it.
Smith & Bieser, et. al., contemplate a world without cops. Story arc starts hereabouts.
Bigotry. And history repeating itself.
What reprehensible two-legged prey-animal first came up with the idea of a duty to retreat? -No, probably that came from the other end of the food chain....
Big lies.
"...[T]he purpose of the education system is to protect the pay of bad teachers...."
Unstable freaks in black robes. Where's the historical reference I'm thinking of... ah.
BACON NEEDS NO EXCUSE. But Texas has a good one.
Think the world is going to the dogs? You're right. It is.
At the show, made enough for car insurance and a little food & fuel. Also Yuri donated more cans for deposit. No idea what I'm going to do for rent this month.
So I'm sitting there at the table with Cruffler and some kids perambulate past and I turn and say to him: "There's another thing I'm gonna get if I ever get money again." "Kids?" "Vasectomy." Da-dumKISH
Sigh. So much stuff I'd rather have bought than sold. Two (modern-production, pre-lawyer-safety) Marlin M1895s, .45-70, different aisles, one $400, the other $395 IIRC. Not as long a potential reach as the Queen, but there are situations when what it does have is highly appropriate. -Like perhaps Texas bacon harvesting. Summa them pigs get biiig. At the other end of the hall was Ruger Lady with several Large Revolvers for more appropriateness. I'd kinda like an original non-Super Redhawk in .45 Colt, 5.5". For the full whomp.
Yes I'm recoil-sensitive. That's what slip-on butt boots and Hogue Monogrips are for. Also, this is lottery-fantasy stuff, being able to afford moar handloading components and land to practice on.
Sigh.
YYYYEAAHHH, broken hot-water connector last night. Because that's how my world works!
Codrea looks back to a less-sucky world. But not suckless.
And Japan sucks too. Which I've written of a bit.
The Race War has been underway for some time, actually. And we didn't start it.
There are other wars: Burn Down All Government Schools, Chapter MMDCLXXIII.
Quotes o' the Day. Sigh.
Making up the "law" as they go along, in Tennessee. Armed robbery in uniform. THIEVES SHOULD BE HUNG FROM STREETLIGHTS IN FRONT OF CITY HALL.
But instead, they're gearing up to murder us first.
On the show & in chat, every Sunday 1100PT, arose the potential of Mumbai/Beslan-style terror attacks on American schools. One Elf said, "The day they hit the schools is the day political correctness dies." But then I was even more depressed to realize, there would still be "parents" blaming the deaths of their children on me and my friends and calling for us to be rounded up and eliminated.
No.
Interim plumbing repairs (calling the slumlord is pointless): thread adapter from hardware store, $3.99. Old garden hose from kitchen faucet to sprayer-head duct-taped to old shower fixture. This leaves $8.62 in checking, $28 in cash, the coin jar, and cans & bottles.
And still no job.
And more bigotry. Remember the National Socialist propaganda against Jews?
I expect Dr. Pournelle does. It's all related.
These days, it's called totalitarianism. It's not a new idea.
Also related, it's New Word Time. You know how kryptonite is the exotic material which robs Superman of his powers? Help me name the strange alloy from which police badges are made, which induces violent sociopathy. "I guess I'm still wondering, Is this a mistake? Could this really be?" said Lynwood Mayor Gene Williams, who described Dorian as friendly and respectful in his experience. WE are not surprised AT ALL. -Who was it who said, a year or two ago, that they wouldn't believe this country still cares about freedom until the Army was turned loose on the cops?
I think I have it: "Unusium". Latin for "one". As in "only".
And any cop who even tries to not be a lying thieving raping murdering child-molesting violent sociopath, gets the treatment the rest of them deserve. THERE. ARE. NO. GOOD. COPS.
Guns magazine .PDFs for November 2010 and October 1960 added to my archive.
In Iowa, a modest proposal for a state-Constitutional amendment. Well-written, if I do say so myself.
And Castle Doctrine progresses in Pennsylvania. Remember Seattle GRE's earlier column. Seriously, I want to know: Whence came this disgusting concept of a "duty to retreat"?
Prohibition will always FAIL.
Finally, Codrea has the Photoshop o' the Day.
The violent sociopathy I linked yesterday was, of course, also covered by Codrea at the time. From the one with the murders, note the quote from the MSM link SavaShip chose: "Although the truck matched witness descriptions, police let him go without searching it after Brian Dorian, 37, a Lynwood police officer on disability leave, flashed his badge, sources said." They really do think it's a license to murder.
Quote o' the Day from comments: "Inquests only work when the authorities don't lie...."
Suprynowicz asks the question: "Where is the statute that says we must instantly obey every shouted command of a police officer, and the punishment for failing to do so is instant death?" And I'm asking, why aren't we killing these murderers in self-defense?
Right now, I could type something really inflammatory. Paraphrasing a bluecoat general from the Indian Wars.
Korean M1s still in the news, with eyes kept on by Codrea, Matthews, and Hoffman with a thoughtful economic angle - as I've said here in the past, po' folks gots RKBA too. -Yes, $500 for a CMP rifle is still way the heck out of most folks' range, including mine (Praise and Blessings upon Tucson Tom the Benevolent), but ponder principles and precedents.
In yesterday's National GRE column, commenter Jafo ponders the origin of "duty to retreat". My utopia tries to cover that base.
The United States is not supposed to be a "democracy". For a short and glorious time, it was a republic. Now, it is an ignorocracy.
Litmus test. Apply... liberally.
Yes they really do want to steal your money. And they're working very hard to make it "legal". Also see.
And we can't even trust our "friends".
Thoughts on off-person concealment. 'Cause it's already starting to matter.
Starting Young Flandry, fourth of the five-so-far omnibus compilations of Poul Anderson's Technic Civilization saga. From the foreword by complier Hank Davis, 2009: And you'll meet a character who often appears in Poul Anderson's stories in various guises: the intelligent, well-meaning, well-connected individual who thinks that surely, we can all just get along if we sit down and discuss this like the sane beings that we are - and whose idealistic naiveté is a blueprint for disaster. Since there has never been a shortage of people like that, both in and out of government, in our "real" world, who think that we can reason with those who want to destroy us, this aspect of Ensign Flandry makes the 1966 novel very much up-to-date.
Big lies and damn lies.
And the "law" is useless. When it's not actively channeling Kafka.
More yet on the Korean M1s from WND.
Quote o' the Day, from an article on how the ecofreaks are destroying the future (or, as I've said repeatedly, how they won't be happy until we're all living in caves, wearing loincloths, and dying of the common cold by age 40): "...I'd sure as hell rather live in a world where the only limits are those imposed by nature rather than by man." And I want my damn flying car too.
I see there's a new Jack Ryan novel due from Clancy late this year, Dead or Alive.
E-buddy SMLE Fan is on a snark spree. Do read. -Now if only we could get Yuri to post something besides Twitter or smartphone links... but the poor guy's constantly being eated by squirrelz.
Speaking of the hundred-year basket case that is Mexico, St. Louis GRE asks: "Is the U.S. government arming the good guys, or the bad guys--and are we sure we can tell them apart?"
...Nuke the border? Cordon sanitaire?
Meanwhile in the sandbox, treason. What else could it possibly be called?
Never ever call the cops. The handful that aren't lying thieving murderers are actively destroyed by the majority.
And, as my screennamesake said, "law is often but the tyrant's will." If they're not restrained by "law" anymore, neither are we.
Stop the world, I wanna get off.
Wikipedia's "On this day" section:
Talk about PSH. Back when I could afford to go shooting I had more than that in the back seat of my car for a typical range session. A few years ago, in one plate match, I went through an entire UMC MegaPack before lunch. Ignorance, lies, and bigotry.
More bigotry here.
And summary murder.
"...to call this 'police militarization' is to slander the military." TJIC also has more on the murder I linked from SMLE Fan yesterday, and commentary on the legal system, not a justice system, while BTR and SMLE Fan both snark on the latest (known...) incident of merely-negligent attempted homicide.
When do we shoot back?
Meanwhile in the voting booth, Pournelle channels Jefferson and makes a couple modest proposals. Downward spiral.... (Again, my utopia tries to cover the base, inspired by Heinlein's suggestions and Switzerland's centuries-old example.)
And NRAWOL, Chapter MMDCLXXVIII. Sigh.
Not that anything we do matters anymore. Well almost....
And meanwhile in the "Religion of Peace". My modest proposal is to carpet-nuke (or -KEW, or what-have-you) everything between Israel and India, partially inclusive.
Interesting times in Wisconsin. -Now when do we start executing cops for decades of kidnapping, armed robbery, and murder?
And there's another week gone with no job. I am very screwed.
We are all so very screwed.
Soldier ordered to delete Fort Hood videos. Somebody here needs hangin', and not just Hasan.
Every cop, everywhere, is a clear and present danger to public safety. Measures must be taken.
No....
Moneystress making me ill. I need $375 in two weeks for rent and I don't have it. And that's not counting the overdue-again electric bill, or food & fuel, or next month's internet and car insurance, etc.
To say nothing of the hoped-for HatCam IPSC video on Halloween, which at this point doesn't look like happening.
And when I do manage to drag myself out of bed, I'm greeted by stuff like this.
A week ago was a story of a cop going on a murder spree. Anyone who's been paying attention would've simply nodded, frowned, and checked the loads in their defensive tools - when one of these sociopaths snaps, we'll still be murdered, by the animal's colleagues pack-mates even if we survive the initial attack, but at least we can try to take some of the murderers with us. Anyway, it now seems he didn't do it.
Mebbe so. But that's not the way to bet. Lately I've been keeping the Queen loaded. The armor, you know.
Show & chat every Sunday 1100PT.
Firehand has the Random Awesome o' the Day. When we Sink the Island, we pick that guy up first.
I've been working through the library's collection of Doctor Who DVDs, and dudes, the First Doctor, William Hartnell (1963-66), talks like frickin' Yoda. Not with the funky green alien grammar but the mannerisms and giggles.
Free target .PDFs.
$TRE$$....
"A congressman has no special protection from criminal charges...." That's how it's supposed to work, and rarely does.
More discrimination in Iowa. What's next, separate drinking fountains?
If they ignore the law, why shouldn't we? Also see.
Media hypocrisy, Chapter MMDCLXXXI.
While on the other end of the equation, if we attempt to excercise that First Amendment Thingy, they set our stuff on fire.
One thing the Almighty State will do, to facilitate the capture, torture and execution of Enemies of the State, is track you through your prescriptions. Me, I don't have any, though there is some OTC stuff I take when needed. SMLE Fan contemplates.
VFW WTF, redux. First seen from Firehand.
"It could cause officers to hesitate in life-threatening situations." They say that like it's a bad thing.
And cops wonder why people hate them.
Stuff still happening in Wisconsin. Again I ask, when do we start hanging cops for their crimes?
Yet more on the Korean M1s.
Yeeaaaaahhhh, another utilities bill on top of the rent. I can't make it.
Obey all stupid parasitic laws, get robbed at gunpoint and thrown in jail anyway. "There is no advantage in cooperating...."
And in Iowa, blatant contempt for both the law and the people.
TJIC illuminates the Enemy's industrial-strength hypocrisy.
Cans & bottles from Cruffler, and more and a sack of food from Yuri. Everything helps.
Gettin' uppity in Idaho.
I, and I expect most of you (lurking sociopaths-with-badges excepted, naturally), have long since memorized and assimilated The Rules. Snarky revises.
[thought=random] All this forthing-and-backing on gay marriage - why do we even have marriage licenses? How can that possibly be government's business? Whose idea was that? -Of course with the entitlement mentality, "benefits" here, "incentives" there, joint filing for income theft, and of course some homo bureaucratis gets to justify it's existence by charging a fee....
Again with the bigoted sociopaths wanting to use "mental health" as an excuse to rob, imprison and murder innocent citizens. -Well, subjects, since we're talking about Australia; only America has citizens.
And here's another bit of psychopathy from those in power: Real criminals released, self-defense prohibited. Who needs their heads examined? -I'm reminded of prison releases here in Portland, coincidentally timed for ballot measures and elections to panic the public into voting more taxtheft for the thugs-with-badges. And remember, the criminals they release are robbers and rapists and murderers (birds of a feather...?), while innocents like, for example, Olofson, victims of discriminatory unConstitutional "laws", planted evidence, fabricated testimony, etc., are kept caged. They hate us and want us to die.
IT'S NOT ABOUT "SAFETY". It's about sadistic and deliberate destruction of innocent lives. And they laugh.
Burn Down All Government Schools, Chapter MMDCLXXXIII.
Somewhat related, ignorance and bigotry at the polls.
So I'm reading the November 2010 issue of American Rifleman and on page 5 is yet another commemorative limited engraved special edition you're supposed to cough up the dough for. Leaving aside the notion of - to quote a line from some SF novel I read whose title I can't recall - "A blade too precious to be drawn is no blade at all", this offering has, black and ugly and right in the middle of the scrollwork and plating and inlay, the Execrable Zit. Epic. FAIL.
Narrowly....
NRAWOL, again and again. W?T?F?
"It" can happen again.
And the first little bits of it already have. First they murder a man, then they use their own crime as an excuse to steal his stuff. Where have we seen that before?
There is no longer any difference between "officers of the law" and the sick predators they claim to protect us from. If it comes through your door without your permission, kill it. You no longer have anything to lose.
How many times must it be pointed out: IT'S NOT ABOUT SAFETY.
Illustrative Quote o' the Day: "You really can tell a lot about a person's character by how they act when they have power over someone." And that's why they become cops. Also.
Robb Allen decries Our Side's lack of unity (invoking Zumbo in passing as an example).
The Third Amendment is not obsolete. Smart guys those Founders.
I think I have read something by Elizabeth Moon, some years ago. Reckon I'll hafta look again.
Received in email:
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Censorship.
St. Louis GRE Hoffman keeps an eye on the UN.
IT'S. NOT. ABOUT. "SAFETY."
Learn these important lessons. -Of course they'll still assault, rob, and murder you with their utter contempt for law, so one may legitimately think, "It does no good to obey. I may as well die fighting...."
Because there is no longer any difference.
"...I always thought the right wing were the ones that were inflexible, intolerant." Well. Duh.
Nuke Britain into Fiery Oblivion, Chapter MMDCLXXXV. -And round up all those feral Texas hogs, load them in a bunch of C-17s, and carpet-bacon Mecca.
Yes, most of what I've been doing the last several months is the Echo Chamber. I know, and it bothers me. I would much rather be posting Cool Action Photos and Chronograph Science and HatCam!!! videos. What I'm having to do instead is sell off some of my most prized possessions to keep an ant-infested slum's roof over my head. If you have ever perceived value or entertainment from this site, please consider a charitable donation.
NRA gets their nose rubbed in it.
Again with lying propaganda. And the tax-paid badge-thugs, and the sheeple whose votes cancel ours, are swilling it down with a grin.
"[U]nimaginably stupid". "[M]ental defect". Their minds don't work right.
Oh of course "a former cop"....
Some of us do name our weapons. Some of us don't name all our weapons. But a good name for a good weapon is a very old idea.
More "buyback" nonsense.
"It is not just a 'few bad apples'; the barrel is rotten."
Rotten.
ROTTEN.
"[T]he courts are supposed to protect the citizen... and they don't." Quite the opposite. Going to court is a lot like being raped.
They hate us.
Meanwhile at the polls, Cruffler sends, States Weigh Letting Noncitizens Vote. I try to avoid profanity... and I try to cover that base.
I see the burst barrel photos are still going around the internet. Over four years now.
Quote o' the Day: "Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have."
Don't you hate waking up with a headache?
And then it gets worse: NRAWOL, Chapter MMDCLXXXVIII.
Their minds don't work right....
More bigotry in Iowa.
Ohhhh yeah, they're just better than us.
And there is no difference. We must use all available force to defend ourselves against any attack. -It's their own fault, for being such violent psychopaths. I really don't care if they have five children and three mortgages. We have a right to go home at the end of their shift too. Their lives are not worth more than mine. Thieves and murderers should be killed.
Counting the coin jar, it is narrowly possible I'll be able to make Wolverton Halloween IPSC. Very narrowly. $12 for the match, about $20 for a tank of fuel; ammunition I'm in the process of making. Your charitable donations will help create more HatCam!!! video and provide content other than an endless linkfest!
Three months since I fired a round....
[thought=random] What would modern cars look like today if the 1948 Tucker Torpedo had been a commercial success?
To think, that New Jersey was once a battlefield in the cause of liberty.
Ditto Massachusetts.
More bigotry against veterans, and blatant lawbreaking at the polls. The system is broken.
Nor is it the only broken system, as Charlotte GRE illustrates with a review of NRA candidate ratings in his state.
Also in North Carolina, a declaration of open war. All cops, everywhere, are enemies of civilization. It's not about "safety" and it's certainly not about "protect and serve". It's about armed robbery in uniform and getting away with murder.
Nobody becomes a cop to help people. That's not the kind of person they're looking for.
Continuing bigotry in Iowa.
It seems to have been some time since I used the term "Culture War" here.
Or the term Racist-in-Chief.
Speaking of open war, Yuri (Yuri Posts Something!!11!!!one!!1) has the casus belli. Are they really that arrogant? Are they really that stupid?
Stossel has the Question o' the Day: "When will they learn that the best way to 'create jobs' is to LEAVE US ALONE?"
Burn Down All Government Schools, Chapter MMDCLXXXIX. Someone needs to be swinging from a lamppost, and not just the rapist.
Prag-smacking, Threeper-style.
I hate Oregon so much....
Uppity again in Illinois.
Distracted by $tre$$ and other worldsuckage, I forgot to note yesterday, via a reader's email reminder, the anniversary of the Battle off Samar, as chronicled in the excellent book The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, in which the United States by-God Navy kicked all manner of asymmetrical ass. With the scale tipping the opposite of the usual direction. If anyone asks where one can find glory in war, there it is.
Ummmm... I would not call these "entry level" 1911s. (An $TI? Fer cryin' out loud? I mean STI's cool, they joined the Ronnie Barrett club some time ago, but "entry level"?) I would call my used ~$400 Cheap Philippine Clonetm with a donated magwell funnel and a hand-fitted replacement slidestop and a Dremeled thumb safety "entry level".
Robb Allen has a candidate for Quote o' the Year. I have found it to be true.
"You know," [Imperial Terrestrial Navy Commander Abrams] said, "ever since Akhnaton ruled in Egypt, probably since before then, a school of thought has held we ought to lay down our weapons and rely on love. That, if love doesn't work, at least we'll die guiltless. Usually even its opponents have said this is a noble idea. I say it stinks. I say it's not just unrealistic, not just infantile, it's evil. It denies we have any duty to act in this life. Because how can we, if we let go of our capability?"
Setting that aside for now, for the latest in Flint's 1632 saga, 1635: The Eastern Front.
This Just In: New York Still Sucks. And to think that also was a battlefield in our War of Independence.
The Culture War rages.
Racist-in-Chief, redux.
And again with the violent sociopathy. Are they TRYING to get themselves killed? Wunna these days the thugs are gonna break into the wrong gol-durned rec room (ref).
I'm sitting here in the hovel eyeing the Oregon vote-by-mail ballot and contemplating the Quote o' the Day.
Another QotD here: "[R]eality has betrayed them, and they want revenge on it." There can be no peace.
Speaking of voting (I drop mine off at the library, there's a box) Tam has the sweetest wookie-suit moment evar.
No, seriously, there can be no peace. "Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die."
SMLE Fan has a nice quote, but I'm so very cynical and embittered I had to pee on his rainbow in comments. Not that SMLE Fan can be accused of Pollyannaism, by any means....
This right here goes a long way toward illustrating the problem. Think about what kind of people want that kind of power.
Speaking of embittered, Snarky has the Bitter o' the Day.
Meanwhile in Old Media. Do click through for pics. Remember yesterday's observation.
"On the bounce, trooper." And if you don't get the reference you're reading the wrong 'blog.
Another lottery fantasy here. Ogden and the Holy Places were on the original itinerary for the Road Trip, until the Cadillac started spewing coolant at the Custer Battlefield.
[thought=random] [actually not random as I'm compiling saved lolcritter videos to make a disc for my sister] We've had Watership Down and Tailchaser's Song... how about squirrels? Whole different existence, up in the trees. Different kinds of trees, different altitudes translating to different, perhaps warring territories... thirty different words for "branch", a couple dozen for "jump" or "climb"... different species of squirrel coexisting....
I can't stand it, I'm splurging on Wolverton IPSC Sunday. Gonna suck for lack of practice, and I'll have to sell more stuff at the show the following Saturday.
Filling out the ballot, reading the Voter's Pamphlet... "Prior Governmental Experience" is not a selling point. They're all parasites, looking for a cushy do-nothing "job" where they can smile at a camera once in a while and rake in other people's money. Few if any have ever done anything productive - built a widget, flipped a burger, pumped a tank of gas - in their lives, and are incapable of it. Help starve a feeding bureaucrat. Ballot measures? If AARP and the teachers' unions like it, that's reason enough to vote against it.
While Codrea ponders possible results (while also wishing a pox on many houses). He'll be on the show Sunday too - but of course I'll be up in Wolverton shooting stuff.
(Unless there's some targeted harrassment waiting for me on the way....)
Workman wonders, who counts the votes (ref)? -And I notice he calls on US Marshals and the like - who signs their paychecks?
What's the damn point?
"Bazillionaire senators will always have workarounds – for their land, for their yachts, for their health care. You won’t."
And the ghost of Goebbels is still at it.
Because it's about control. Nothing else.
...Well I am planning on some live fire this weekend... I guess that's something....
TJIC's fangs come out and he takes big quivering blood-spattered bites out of NASA. Or perhaps I should type NA$A.
SavaShip has a fang or two for NRA. -WOL.
"It" can happen again. Really. Parts of "it" already have.
Codrea interviews GOA's Larry Pratt.
"Corporations are Eee-vill" is one of the many war overseas-contingency-operation-cries of The Enemy. It's generally false - who built your Vanagon and the microwave you're heating those burritos in? And what was their motivation? But once in a while, corporations are evil, specifically Monsanto, using windblown gengineered seed as a Kafka-esque excuse to destroy independent farming. An-y-how, Frank W. James, who does a column in Shotgun News (which I don't get anymore 'cause the $ub$cription expired), is also a Real Live Working Farmer and he keeps an eye on such things. The reason this is in Lighter News is, the farming equivalent of Heller may be underway.
Correia has Special Halloween MHI PSA Bonus!-ness!
One of my favorite webcomics is Schlock Mercenary. Big long story arcs require much archive-grinding to build up to the Moments of Awesome. Like a weapon held in the prehensile tail of a headless gravsled-riding monkey.
Show & chat every Sunday 1100PT. I won't be there 'cause I'm'a goin' shootin'!
And I didn't even go to West Point....
Back alive at 1500! Didn't get Erik Scotted. This time. (My feelings toward cops are very similar to Juan Williams' toward Muslim airline passengers. For very similar reasons.) Good to get out of the hovel, good to see my sister again, and someone left a very large sack of cans & bottles on my car. More to follow this evening.
New York Sucks, Chapter MMDCXCIV.
Remember Red's Trading Post? BTR does. It's not about anything but control.
The problem with the Culture War is (via Borepatch) their minds don't work right. The enemy cannot be reasoned with because they are incapable of reason. The only thing they know how to do is destroy.
What's? The? Damn? POINT!?
I went shooting!
The thing is, though, yesterday I was helping a friend move and today I was running around and bending to pick up brass and such and helping with the teardown after and zomg ow. So I'll summarize with the promise of more later: Four stages, simplified "time added" scoring, and I learned some lessons from my poorer performance in July, like using more magazines and not letting myself be surprised by slidelock. In the long-distance stage in the above photo I aimed before squeezing and, though my time was not the best, my accuracy was better than I expected when we went downrange to score.
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