RIFLEMAN'S JOURNAL - JANUARY 2011
The World Sucks
Guess what! MSM and cops hate us and want us to die! Who'd'a thunk it!
But that's just the kind of people they are.
Speaking of MSM....
In economic news, rope sales spiked sharply in North Carolina. Or they damn well should have.
Remember Smith & Wesson Must Die? Here is not the first incident of the Clinton/HUD internal lock, the infamous execrable Zit, potentially costing a citizen his life.
Tucson Tom (Praise and Blessings be Upon the Benevolent Donor of The Queen) sends border news. -Loyal Reader suggests I transplant to Arizona. I am ambivalent. It's warm there, and they have Constitutional Carry which is a big selling point (bearing in mind the inherent deadly dangers of peaceably exercising a Constitutionally-guaranteed human right in public), but if I'm gonna live in a border state I want a Letter of Marque.
You see this? This right here? That right there is why I'm depressed.
Born in the wrong damn century....
In Lighter News
St. Louis GRE Kurt Hoffman offers a course of action.
Michael G. sends this review of Chris Knox's compilation of his father, RKBA champion Neal's, work.
Speaking of Arizona, Tucson Tom also sends different border news.
Criminally Ignorant %$#!tard o' the Day (language warning). "Think of it as evolution in action." (In my utopia, teachers are armed and swear oaths to defend minor students in their care - or their parents take the tuition money to a competing school in a free market. Parents, not some pants-wetting bureaucrat, decide when their children are mature enough to bear arms, and weapon training is part of most schools' curriculums, again if they want to stay in business.)
Criminally Submissive Sheeple o' the Day, and another cause of depression: the pitiful lack of airport riots and TSA agents' heads on spikes.
Living in enemy-occupied territory, Chapter MMDCCLVII. Anything coming through your door without your permission must be killed.
Speaking of violent sociopaths who like to cause pain, Yuri links to more data on a recent pet-murder. As stated, I have neither the bandwidth nor stomach to watch videos of sadistic perverts who get paid with my tax dollars.
And then there's this too.
Aaand another one of these.
Meanwhile in show business. Shut up and sing. -In fact just shut up.
Well duh:
Show & chat every Sunday 1100PT. Via a chat Elf, I hope to add this to the next Epic Road Trip.
Elf also sends little bitty cameras. Anyone who can't think of a dozen reasons to get a fistful of these... probably isn't reading this site anyway.
Cruffler sends How to reload a primer. Which skill one hopes never to need....
If I can ever afford to go shooting again I'll have to perform some Science.
If I can find the paper-strip caps.
Foxtrot Mike Lima....
Meanwhile at BATFE. We know who the real criminals are.
Britain Sucks, Chapter MMDCCLVIII. Didn't always....
Speaking of Eurosuckage, I have two brothers. One of them was a tanker - M60s - with the 7th Army in Germany, waiting for the T-62s to pour through the Fulda Gap back in the Cold War. All that blood and treasure we, as Americans, spent to save Europe from three totalitarian threats in as many generations - AND FOR WHAT!?
A glimpse inside the mind of the enemy. Which don't work right.
Which of the couple is supposed to be Marie Antoinette?
...I suppose it would be hate speech to point out the historical progression....
Moving to Arizona? Point against.
More data on the latest (known...) S&W internal lock failure.
I have neither the patience nor the stomach for this kind of work. All credit to Popgun.
Industry humor. I LOLd.
Libertarian artist Scott Bieser has a new webcomic.
Widener's has surplus CZ75s. 8-9
Kel-Tec bullpup shotgun. -I still don't like bullpups, with their balance issues. (I handled a Mossberg 500 bullpup once - gack, it musta' been built for something with tentacles 'cause it didn't fit this endoskeletal hominid at all.) The long linkage required by the bullpup design tends toward atrociously-heavy triggers. I also don't like plastic weapons. But at least Kel-Tec is coming up with new, or at least new-ish, stuff.
MSM lies, Chapter MMDCCLIX.
"Protect and Serve" who?
Yeah we know who. IT'S NOT ABOUT SAFETY.
Never mind the religiosity, Michael G. sends this account of how things used to be in this nation, and of how preemptively-totalitarian thugs-with-badges have destroyed generations-old natural human trust.
Michael also points to this item (via WoG) illustrating that it's not a new problem. It's not "a few bad apples". It's the nature of the barrel.
Why is it, the most peaceable and law-abiding segment of society is always the target of such outright, and often-violent, bigotry? Why is that?
And why are we constantly being lectured by people who can't tell a flintlock musket from a Star Trek phaser (and also can't read plain American English words)? How do these subsentient wretches gain positions of influence and credibility?
Speaking of being lectured, a deep vein of pure elemental hypocrisium has been discovered. The element has no known applications....
Oughta get the EPA to declare that a pollutant.
Remember when everything was grounded after 9/11, except of course for government flights? Government is good at one thing: It knows how to break your legs, hand you a crutch, and say, "See, if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk." And people always forget how their legs got broken in the first place....
So, if I have an unrevised copy of Huckleberry Finn, I'm'a get raided by SWAT or something? Orwell's 1984 was supposed to be a warning, NOT AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL!
A little justice in Wisconsin. The wrong entity is being made to pay, but at least a precedent is on the books now.
Michael G. also sez Hatcher's Notebook - which I think I have an e-copy of, somewhere - may have formulae for priming compound, to go with the other day's link from Cruffler about reloading primers.
Speaking of Letters of Marque, Loyal Reader sends a modest proposal.
EEE-VILL GUNS flowing across the border into Mexico! Oh wait....
Hoffman keeps an eye on BATFE's making-it-up-as-they-go-along-ness.
"HE COMMITTED NO CRIME, YET THE COPS TOOK HIS GUNS AWAY." "Government is good at one thing...."
They like to hurt people. That's the kind of people they are.
CMP Garand matches at Clark Rifles, 14 May, 9 July and 19 November, all Saturdays.
Meanwhile in Utah (also). Which is also on the escape list. -Not that I'm planning on returning to school but the state does seem RKBA-friendly.
Maybe I should try this. Except I can't afford the booze and drugs.
Speaking of the kind of people they are: [pointing] Hah-hah!
$tre$$....
The eee-vill gunz aren't flowing to Mexico, they're walking. Where have we seen this kind of tactic before?
Is anyone paying attention out there?!
Jericho was a really good show. Which of course is why CBS cancelled it. How many times have I asked if no one sees where we're headed?
(I know people who can build a crossbow....)
(And I'm suddenly reminded of this. I think Filipino guerillas, or someone, made some out of automotive leaf springs, to launch captured mortar bombs and the like....)
Lying bigots with badges, Chapter MMDCCLXI. (And bigots without badges too.) I want to live where there are no cops. It would be safer.
Fourth Amendment? "This is going to get someone killed." Yeah it already has. WHY are we not shooting BACK? Why are we not killing these murderous fascists on sight?
Borepatch warns against the overtechnologization of automobiles. How long until citizens are subject to arrest for not having government-mandated override circuits?
It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you.
Prohibition FAIL. The cure is worse than the disease.
Meanwhile in the religion of peace. And we're the ones who should be "tolerant" and "inclusive".
Speaking of, observe the first item in Firehand's daily worldsuckage roundup. And the rest of them too. Got antacid?
Sigh....
Gettin' uppity in Illinois.
"I didn’t get into it for the power." That's... a bold statement.
I do have an e-copy of Hatcher's Notebook. It's a 636pg, 76Mb .PDF, and it is not OCR, meaning it can't be conveniently searched for text. (-Are we spoiled in this technological age or what?) My bandwidth is restricted (Cricket sux, can't afford to change) so it'll be a week or two before I can even try to upload it somewhere. Anyway it's around, just search for ["hatcher's notebook" .pdf] and you'll find several free download or online transcription sites.
BTW, last month I mentioned an odd bug with VLC v1.1.5, the current release last I checked. After a friend installed the same release without the bug, I reinstalled from the very same self-ex I'd downloaded earlier, and all is well. Shrug?
Sometimes I'll launch Task Manager (still using XP here) so I can keep an eye on CPU cycles. Why is it, sometimes when I launch it, it doesn't put the little green bar graph in the System Tray?
From comments: The typical MSM "reporter" is a "prevaricating pinhead." And they wonder why their circulation is down....
Speaking of MSM's indescribable ignorance, I never liked Bill O'Reilly anyway.
"Murderous fascists" I said, and I meant it. Firehand has more on the back-shot murder of US Army Captain Erik Scott.
...Isn't this the very same kind of special treatment and "law for thee but not for me" that led to massive armed revolt 230-plus years ago? "...protecting them, by mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States...."
There are no good cops. Any who don't get with the fascist program are driven out or destroyed.
While the usual kind gets paid vacation.
And don't forget the armed-robbery-in-uniform. IT'S! NOT! ABOUT! "SAFETY"!
Speaking of fascism, security tips for smartphones. And remember TracFone still sells totally-prepaid phones for cash. During setup - and I helped a friend setup a new one just last week - when the automated voice-recognition asks for personal information, just say "no" and it skips.
Boycott the bigots.
What, again with homeowners' associations prohibiting the American flag? When I say I hate cities, that includes suburbs.
Speaking of minds not working right, meanwhile in the warmist cult, and on the economic front.
ANDTHENMYCARBLEWUP.
BECAUSETHAT'SHOWMYWORLDWORKS.
My first actual car fire. Oil everywhere. Fortunately it was a small fire and I put it out with water I had on board but FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.
M.
L.
Please help?
8-(
We are all so very screwed.
It's certainly not like I can pay a shop to fix it, or go buy another car....
I swear the gods are lining up to take their shots at me. WTF was I in a past life?
Incident analysis from all over the blogo-sphere. Reportedly the shooter was a fan of Mein Kampf (which is, I remind everyone, national socialism) and The Communist Manifesto (which is... you know... socialism). But of course it's all the fault of us eee-vill profit-grubbing kitten-eating capitalists....
I think what offends me most is the incompetence. Firing indiscriminately. If I wuz to assassinate a politician, I'd finish my .308 Mauser project, develop a nice handload (I still have some Noslers), get hunnerds & hunnerds of rounds of practice, build a ballistics table, maybe pick up a used rangefinder at a show, then carefully and discriminately engage only the appropriate targets.
...I can't bloody afford to plot an assassination....
Meanwhile, tyranny marches on. For this I get out of bed in the morning? What's the damn point?
Show & chat every Sunday 1100PT, prerecorded in preparation for SHOT. No mention of the incident.
Codrea looks back to a less-sucky world. The January 1961 Guns .PDF is available through Codrea's column and my archive.
They want to interview me for the job Thursday but the manager is out next week and I can't drive there now because my car is in pieces. I will not ride the bus for fifty miles a day at over two dollars each way while surrounded by fourteen different kinds of freaks not even counting the drivers. -And there are reports of the Fourth Amendment being suspended at transit centers now too, meaning I'd hafta execute me some fascists and then get murdered by them.
~$70 for the parts & tools I know I'll need: a thread-repair kit, then I'll likely need at least one new spark plug, meaning I should get a full set; also the Ejection wrecked one of the spark plug wires meaning I'll need a new set of those too. And with my luck another one will let go as soon as I fix the one that already has. And that will blow nearly all the cash I made at the show Saturday.
GPal still hasn't responded either. Three emails so far, and half an hour on hold watching my TracFone minutes tick away. -Oh, now I get a semi-automated email opening a new service ticket.
We knew this was coming. Codrea links to other GREs' observations too.
Yet more incident analysis. Pournelle intimates that the only way to prevent this sort of thing is to destroy the entire concept of individual liberty, and as far as I'm concerned (and him too) that price is infinitely too high.
Loyal Reader, Praise and Blessings Be Upon Him, swung by to give me a lift to the parts store and paid for the stuff, which I hope to do something with in the next day or two when it isn't so cursed cold outside.
You see what happened there? I got the job possibility right after my car blew up. That is how my world works.
I know what caused this. I've figured it out: Five or six thousand years ago, my ancient Teuton ancestors were driving a wagon through a village and ran over the local wizard's goat, thereby receiving a curse of the "aannnd aaalllll yooouurr liiiine" variety. Three of the four cars I've owned so far have blown up. My sister's car blew up with me in it. My mother never got her driver's license because the pickup truck blew up on the way to DMV and the old man blamed her for it and she wasn't even driving it I bet. Loyal Reader offered to loan me a car and I said "Hell no I'm'a get struck by a meteor."
There is no justice. Only "law".
And we know what kind of people enjoy law enforcement.
First comment: WOW! And they think “gun people” are crazy?
I've long been libertarian-ish, or what Larry Elder, before they booted him off the radio, called "republitarian". Over the past year I've grown even more anti-government and anti-law, though I retain patriotic and nationalist sentiments. In any case I've always enjoyed Penn Jillette, who is Paying Attention Dammit.
Philosophically related, a frequent beef I have with "conservatives" is their blind devotion to "law and order" and "support for law enforcement". What will it take to get the blinders off? It's never been about safety. It's always been about control.
I refuse - refuse, I say - to be lectured by professional ignorami who can't tell a flintlock musket from a Star Trek phaser.
Speaking of, David, dude, why are you wasting the bandwidth on the blindly-floundering bigot?
Codrea of course is on top of multiple attempts to destroy human rights, more than I have gumption to link. Go read WoG every day.
Oregon Sucks. But regular readers will have figured that out by now.
MYCARISFIXEDagain.
Woodworker and his longtime mate EvilWoman, aka Mechanic, whom I've known for years starting back in the old BBS days when I was doing a little SCA stuff, came over and did most of the repair work. It's not perfect - the helicoil isn't seated as deeply as I think it should be - but it sounds and feels fine at freeway speeds as I convoyed down to their place for dinner and test drive.
(Gaaaaahhhhh.)
There was some recent flap over GOA's Larry Pratt and citizenship and somethingorother. Codrea sheds light.
SMLE Fan is okay now, but gets his fangs out for h. bureaucratis.
Loyal Reader expressed slight freaked-out-ed-ness re: my post the other day about my M100 rifle. This right here eloquently clarifies my position.
"Only a country that actually valued the lives and safety of its individual troopers would have, and indeed could have designed and mass produced such a pistol." And the Marines bought 4,000 new ones just a couple years ago. All. Hail. Saint. John.
Is that... chain shot? For pistols? -I've seen a 12 gauge variety at shows and on the web, and it takes very little imagination or work to alter a fishing-sinker mold to make such. -Or is this more Birdman Weapons Systems stuff?
I've owned one Remington 870, two Mossberg 500s, and a Mossberg 590. I've been inside both and seen how they're built and how they work. Make Mine Mossberg.
Download free useful ebooks for Interesting Times. Oh my aching bandwidth....
What kind of people want to restrict our free speech? This kind of people, that's what kind of people.
Speaking of that kind of people, gunbloggers report that rep. Peter King (Statist RINO-NY) wants to bring back lèse majesté with no-guns-within-1000-feet-of-the-Ruling-Class nonsense. Tam has a better idea.
Armed robbery in uniform, Chapter MMDCCLXVII.
Mainstream media explained.
Some people can't handle freedom. -Which, yes, raises the semantic point of whether they can be called "people".
Quote o' the Day: The distinguishing characteristic of every “gun-free utopia” on earth is a mountain of bullet-riddled corpses.
Thoughts on the right-vs.-left-ness of national socialism vs. the regular kind. I've long figured the only difference to be the cut of the uniforms. Both lead to pyramids of skulls, or the functional equivalent, using functionally-identical methods.
TJIC expands on the legitimacy of assassinating politicians.
Job interview now scheduled for Friday.
GPal still hasn't responded though, since the last email on Monday. I've been getting a bunch of calls my TracFone identifies as "Private", but that was happening before the latest GPal donation and I've not been answering them. And they could, you know, leave voicemail or something, which they aren't.
Speaking of Ms. Malkin, remember the Beltway Sniper? Michelle does, and compares Tucson's Dupnik to Baltimore's (formerly Portland's) "Curtain Rod" Moose.
Pournelle continues examining the Tuscon incident, from a position of real authority with a Ph.D. in psychology, another in political science - from back when a degree in something actually had meaning - and vast real-world life experience. Eye-grabbing quotes: "the mental health profession is losing its confidence in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, which is only astonishing to me because it took so long." And: "I remain of the opinion that locking people up at the discretion of police and mental health experts is a very dangerous matter." Beware unintended consequences, and cures worse than diseases.
BTR bundles up a bouquet of bigotry. And they call us crazy.
The crazies want to prohibit normal-capacity magazines again, wailing that if one of their fellow flag-burning potheads has to stop to reload, some bystander could, I dunno, "open a dialogue" and "respect his personhood" or something. Over here Joe Huffman posted video of his reload drills with text commentary countering the nonsense. Which reminded me of a shweet reload I did in my first-ever for-real and counts IPSC shoot. The original video, before I started editing them, is here, but I've excerpted the relevant four seconds near the end of the run as a 5.5Mb .AVI here and also YouTubed it here. So what's next? Registration of magazine sales? Imprisonment for having more than two magazines? Outlaw the possession of any tool capable of working sheetmetal or making springs? Annex the Sudetenland and we'll really really and for true stop there we promise? How much will be enough for these insane control freaks?
For the record: more restrictions are not the answer.
SavaShip is getting the eff out of Illinois. This right here is one of several thousand reasons why. It's not part of the United States. It's enemy-occupied territory.
The label "conservative" fits me less every day. Alas, some "libertarians" just ain't grokking neither.
"...[A]fter a few prototypes and several high-velocity mishaps, they triumphed." I don't use alcohol but that's really damn cool.
Why is Firefox gobbling all my CPU cycles? Or does this old 1.6GHz Athlon just not have that many to go around?
Ignorant hate-spewing bigots, Chapter MMDCCLXIX.
Speaking of bigotry, use ur FireFox & DownloadHelper to grab an .FLV of this before it goes down the memory hole. And they want to censor our speech.
DaybyDay draws an historic parallel. Talk about "got the t-shirt". Why do so few people see where we're headed?
Britain is already there. As are some states. I repeat, the time to uncase the rifles is 1934, not 1943. These things, these people, these "laws" need to be stopped now, before we get to mountains of skulls and holocaust museums. No one's done it yet.
Speaking of "law", this made me slip a little something into my fictional utopia's equivalent of the Fourth Amendment.
Also speaking of "law", respect for it must work in both directions... or neither. The real solution was figured out a long time ago.
Meanwhile in Montana, Cruffler sends this report of uppityness.
Trying to Start a Civil War, Chapter MMDCCLXX.
Which group of habitually-gun-carrying "people" is most likely to resort to violence over trivial matters? WHO can't be trusted with guns?
Yeah for a long time we've known who.
Aaaand there goes redress of grievances.
Remember the other day when some h. bureaucratis (if ever there was a justification for genocide... but as Loyal Reader points out, the trouble is in telling them apart) pronounced that the Constitution is stupid 'cause it was written over a hundred years ago and no one can understand it? Here's a little context. Remember, folks! Some bureaucratic parasite who's never held a job in the real world and has less reading comprehension than your own third-grader is uniquely qualified to tell you how to live your life!
Speaking of quizzes and PeopleWhoKnowBetterThanYou....
Visual Aid o' the Day.
As for Sarah Palin, I'm still not sure about her myself, but anyone who drives the other side so incoherently bug-boink nuts has got to be worth something.
Again with piracy. We know the solution.
Correia gets out his carving knives again.
One of the tinfoil-hat crowd's sparkly bits is that Apollo couldn't'a happened 'cause of the Van Allen radiation belts. (I think Loughner wuz wunna those too.) A real-worlds concern for long-duration space missions is exposure to radiation, particularly from solar flares - Michael Flynn dramatically incorporated this into his excellent Firestar series. In my own meager offerings I've just presumed the problem would be solved by the time it was needed.
Here is a good reason to blog every day (Yuri and SMLE Fan...).
As if there were not enough enemies of civilization, now the Catholic Church is jumping in. Feeding the crocodile in the hope of being eaten last?
Newspaper editorial calls for censorship. W?T?F? "Lining up to be a hot lunch"? -And Sink the Island.
And they call us "crazy".
Show & chat every Sunday 1100PT. Not dwelling on the Tuscon incident attack. I'm far more afraid of a government which could "protect" me from Loughner, than of Loughner himself. Because I know some history.
The March/April 2011 digital edition of American Handgunner is archived, as is the March 2011 issue of Guns.
Nearing the end of Hoyt's Darkship Thieves, which isn't quite as exciting as I might have expected from the hype but is a long way from sucking. Next will be that new Heinlein bio everyone was excited about, but Brigid points to another Hornfischer naval-history book which is in the local library. -Hey Hollyweird, there's yer movies-that-don't-suck ideas. But you'll screw them up anyway....
Speaking of reading, MHI junkies can have another fix, expanded from an earlier release.
Hey Chuckie, prohibition has been tried. Every time, it causes vastly more harm than it- oh hey it's never actually done any good. (Ooo, ooo, I know! We have to stop teaching history in school! So nodoby even knows how to bring up these embarrasing facts anymore! Yeah, that's the ticket!)
This Just In: California still sucks.
And they want to censor our speech. -I'm not sure I have the stomach to make that part of my daily read....
Pournelle sounds the alarm again: "Freedom is not free. Liberty has a price." And the proposed cures are vastly worse than the disease.
There are no good cops. There just aren't. I've said before, even the ones who don't go around randomly robbing and raping and murdering are Close Personal Friends and Supporters of the ones who do - that is, in "legal" terms, accessories to armed robbery and serial rape and widespread murder. It's so bad, so pervasive, any story of any cop doing anything is automatically and instinctively snarked.
Because there is no difference between the "protectors" and what they claim to be "protecting" us from. We don't need cops. America got along just fine for a long time without cops. We should return to that safer, more peaceful, and more civilized way of life.
You see this? This right here? I'm okay with that.
Firehand points and laughs at those wonderful environmentally-conscious electric cars.
Taurus introduces 28 gauge revolver. I think I heard Tom Gresham hint at it on the show yesterday too. Holy Pooping Poop why? -Looking up the 28, it seems to be a .55" bore, suggesting this is not (based on necessary chamber dimensions I would think) a .500S&W hybrid like their previous .45/.410 models. What's it for? Especially if, as seems apparent on what little information is yet available, it will be an NFA item subject to house-burning and kitten-stomping. -Ya know what would be cool, would be a modern, like top-break, LeMat - for example an 8- or 10-shot .357 wrapped around a single-shot .45/.410. I mentioned one in passing even, and I wrote that a decade or more ago. With both barrels rifled, that would be real-world legal even. -Until BATFU pulls another set of "rules" out of their collective butt of course.
Still no response from GPal. And I'll be changing banks soon....
Nuke New Jersey into fiery oblivion. Then sweep up the radioactive gravel and dump it at sea.
Meanwhile at BATFU - have those jack-booted thugs ever told the truth about anything?
What? Cops are liars and thieves? Unpossible! >:-[ Get some of those tiny cameras and wire your car, home, and at this rate probably your underwear.
There is no difference....
Pournelle's RTWTworthy Profundity o' the Day: [D]epriving a citizen of freedom should be a very serious action, and the result of specific procedures, not just at the whim of someone who says "he's nuts." Note that no one wants to jail the Tucson survivor who made quite a public threat against the local Tea Party leader. I fear a government which could "protect" me from "crazy" people far more than the crazy people. Because!I!Know!Some!History! -Philosohically related, especially considering the graphic and enraging cases Pournelle cites, Joe Huffman has the Quote o' the Day. You could be next. On the word of some parasitic bureaucrat who's never had a real-world job in its life.
Email's a bit behind.
Michael G. sends WSJ article in support of RKBA.
Utah State Legislature declares 24 January John Moses Browning Day. Click through for pics & docs.
TTAG has more on the Taurus 28ga, while Tam answers the question I asked yesterday.
Still no word from GPal, while PayPal comes through like clockwork.
No word from the job.
Electric bill getting ugly but I should have another month.
Never-ending bigotry.
And outright oppression. This is what Pournelle has been warning about.
Dial 911 and Die, Chapter MMDCCLXXIV.
Remember folks, they're the Only Ones Professional Enough to maturely and responsibly possess firearms. From a comment on the MSM site: "What makes everyone think it was actually STOLEN?"
(Well if you get into the philosophy of taxation and traffic tickets and so forth, yeah, it was stolen, but not from the department....)
"[I]f you lose money running a gambling operation, you must be retarded." Or, you know, government.
You know. Government.
Which is retarded.
And also creepifying. "What's the best load for blimp?"
(Ya know, simple free-flight rockets are a very old technology, as are time-delay fuses for explosive payloads. The thing has a ceiling of 400 feet? It doesn't take much imagination at all to do a napkin-sketch of an anti-blimp bazooka. -Srsly I and my fellow anti-government extremists have given this some thought. The WWII US bazooka used batteries, and wires trailing from the rocket which the loader had to hook up - we could build one with fixed contacts, requiring only that you index the rocket correctly when loading, and the battery could be eliminated by cannibalizing one of those Russian pump-handle flashlights and soldering a capacitor in the right place. The Soviet RPG7, which our troops encounter incessantly in the sandbox, uses a hammer-firing-pin-and-percussion-cap ignition, again requiring only correct indexing while loading; Shotgun News had an article on the whole operation.)
Cruffler sends article on Lee's birthday. After Appamattox, it was Lee, not Lincoln, who truly preserved the Union, by putting his mighty name behind reconciliation and against guerilla resistance.
Sunshine, Ray of, one (1) each. But that does disrupt my fallback retirement plan.
Oh look, here's another! If you turn your head and squint kinda.
Pretty....
I just now made the connection that TJIC is the innocent citizen robbed at gunpoint for having the temerity to exercise his First Amendment rights. We are living in enemy-occupied territory. Now lemme hop on the Underground Resistance Freedom-Fighter Eee-Vill Anti-Government Extremist bandwagon:
Borepatch has the ever-growing roundup. Come and get us, coppers. What oath did you swear?
To which can be added my previous pronouncement that anything coming through your door without your permission must be killed. Whether or not it wears the silly hat of government. We know who the real threats to public safety are.
And they want to censor our speech and steal our property.
"Meanwhile, the 2009 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize has thrown a state dinner for the man who has imprisoned the winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize." -Can't add nuthin' to that.
I used to think Dick Cheney wasn't so bad, largely because the Other Side hated him so much (which is my current view of Sarah Palin). Nope, not anymore. As RNS recently quoted, The cry of the Conservative is “if only we were in power”. The cry of the libertarian is “if only the government had less power.” Also see. Can't trust none of 'em.
Meanwhile in government school....
Again with the self-destructive Jews, this time soiling themselves at the sight of one who isn't. I got yer "final solution" right here.
Haven't bashed TSA for a while but this right here would be enormously fun to watch.
So... much... want....
Gettin' uppity in Virginia.
Meanwhile in government school. I've had that idea for a long time too.
“Man faces jail after protecting home from masked attackers.” And that's all I need to know about Canada.
Meanwhile at BATFU. If your commute takes you past any Federal Buildings, you might want to find an alternate route....
Clear and present dangers to public safety. But they want to take away our guns.
Defund NPR. The First Amendment gives them the right to lie. It doesn't give them the right to use my taxes to do it.
How many times have I said, It's just a game and we're the pieces?
I saw the picture here and thought, "Whuzzat, Detroit?" I hovered the mouse over the image to get a caption or URL, and yeah, it's Detroit. And then I thought: "There must be some items of value still left in these ruins, something worthy of salvage - but it's very dangerous to retrieve it, with vicious gangs of bloodthirsty criminals on one side, and the ones who don't have badges on the other." And then it came to me: Assemble a team, gather the equipment - combat archaeology. Talk about reality TV! And all those vendors at SHOT this week, they could pay teh big monies for product placement. I. Am. Genius.
[internal dialogue=random] Character A observes a shrieking moonbat and comments aloud, "Shrieking moonbat."
To which Character B pedantically responds, "Barking moonbat."
Leading Character A to reply even more pedanticallyer, "That's the primary genus, yes, but moonbattus shrillius is rapidly becoming the dominant subspecies."
Character B then queries, "Looking at them, though, one wonders how they manage to maintain their numbers...."
Character A concludes the dialogue by proposing, "Mitosis?"
The TJIC Uprising continues. They can't have no idea how much they're ticking us off.
Quotes o' the Day:
Reportedly, BATFU has - natürlich - pulled more "rules" out of their butts and killed the Taurus 28ga revolver, and their .410 Mare's Leg. So now I want one....
And a Saiga too.
Speaking of BATFU, “Did U.S. agency smuggle guns to Mexico to justify its budget?” That's the way I'd bet.
("Oh, Mummy, look! Firemen. Mummy, there's going to be a fire.")
Oh yeah. All kinds of fires....
"The founders never intended...." Yes they damn well did you staggeringly-ignorant bigots.
Loyal Reader sends non-PSH MSM report on regional Cowboy Action shooting.
Even "mainstream conservatives" are starting to admit that prohibition dun wurk.
Correia does Vegas. And STI - who, remember, have joined the Ronnie Barrett Club by refusing all sales to California because California is stupid and evil - does MHI.
More yet on Project Gunwalker. Watch for falling federal buildings....
Their Minds Don't Work Right, Chapter MMDCCLXXVIII: They really do read that stuff off cards. When they bother to read anything at all. And they call us IgnorantRushPalinPaulBots.
RINO speechwriter sez, "No one but people with bad intent" need magazines which hold more than ten rounds. So that's why there's an AR in every cop car now.
Show & chat every Sunday 1100PT. Cheap reloading idea from a chatroom Elf: hot-glue bullets, primer-powered. Like for basement practice. (Or Loyal Reader's attic-squirrel?) Hmm. You can melt them down for reuse even.
Trying to start the Heinlein bio but 1) it's six hundred pages just in the first of two volumes, 2) I already have more books in the stack like Anderson's Captain Flandry, and 3) Ringo's latest is on the way and other people are lined up for it in the library queue. Sigh....
Which is also why I haven't answered Michael G.'s emails....
GPal FAIL. Reports of the service's unreliability and lack of integrity are obviously true. I must now tediously remove all the GPal buttons from all my pages so any future donors do not waste their money....
First comment here makes the obvious-to-everyone-but-the-real-bigots civil rights connection. And here's a snarky analogy and here's an enraging example. A state of war exists between the government and the people. Why aren't we shooting back?
More data? How 'bout the Tooth-Gnasher o' the Day: "Annoying the TSA is not a crime." "Yet." Why are there not flaming bloody riots at airports?
I reckon not even BATFU knows what BATFU's doing about shotgun imports. But they'll shoot your dog and stomp on your kitten anyway. Because they can.
Because that's the kind of people they are. And they call us "gun nuts".
The point is, they hate us and want us to die. -In chat yesterday SavaShip quipped that the only people who can have guns in Illinois, from which he recently escaped, are cops and criminals - to which I naturally responded, "Like there's a difference".
And they're liars and thieves too. Never. Trust. A. Cop. Of. Any. Kind.
They're really not safe to be around. Every cop, everywhere, is a clear and present danger to my personal safety and yours too. Based on a literal mountain of documented examples, I cannot imagine how I could be made to believe otherwise.
They're all like that. Most just haven't been caught. And when they do get caught they can expect very special treatment.
In fairness, cops are not the only threat to public safety. And they call us violent.
Worldsuckage Extra: I didn't get the job.
This right here sums up my feelings toward Sarah Palin.
Yeah that-there's pretty much the end of the rope. I've got some yardwork-for-cash lined up which might barely raise rent - and after that, what?
FML all to pieces.
And I was off doing that yard work today, and got back late by staying for dinner while waiting for freeway traffic to subside. Ow, unaccustomed to physical labor. Email is more behinder, nor will I 'blog much this evening - you know where to go.
But I had to relate these Quotes o' the Day:
And the If-You're-Not-Bloody-Terrified-You're-Not-Paying-Attention o' the Day: The "offense" field on the arrest order was left blank!
Encore l'ow. Doin' wunna those "jobs Americans won't do". Managed to pop the chain off the chainsaw, heh. And email is still backed up.
Codrea, Hoffman and Workman analyze SOTU.
Also via Michael G. in email, PSH in Iowa. Minds... don't work right....
"Both police officers opposed the rule change because they wanted to have access to the gun purchase records without requiring a court's permission." That's... fundamentally unAmerican. And that's the kind of people cops are.
PJM does SF. Related Quote o' the Day: "Science fiction is about going out beyond the frontier; leftism is about putting up Iron Curtains along it."
Loyal Reader sends 1911 news from Utah.
27 January 1967 - AS-204 Apollo 1 Virgil I. 'Gus' GrissomEdward H. White IIRoger B. Chaffee IN MEMORIAM
And another utility bill! Yeah! That's how my world works!
More yet on Project Gunwalker, which MSM is very professionally ignoring.
Again with "mental" "health". Like Codrea said the other day, "Forget guilty until proven innocent. They're working on crazy until proven sane." A very great deal depends on who defines "crazy". Power corrupts, always. Who can be trusted with that kind of power?
I'm not the only rightsblogger whose rope is nearing end-ness.
There is no justice, only "law". Chapter MMDCCLXXXII. “I knew they can’t just seize my property,” said Kilgore. We. Used. To. Hang. Thieves. And it's past time we brought back the practice.
There is no justice. Only "law". Which the thugs make up as they go along. (Via Oleg.) I repeat, police are the enemies of civilization. Never trust a cop of any kind.
Shotgun import regulations? Making it up as they go along. As usual.
The Other Side has an inherent distrust of humanity. Their one and only instinct is to prohibit and ban, coerce and extort. They cannot tolerate anyone doing anything without permission.
Srsly. Remember that bit in the first Matrix film where the bug is removed from Neo's virtual navel? "Holy $%#*! That thing's real?" Calling Jack Bauer - the next time someone wants to nuke New York, let them!
More SOTU from Pournelle ("A Presidency to Nowhere"), and Correia ("We're boned").
Hey, looks like Larry Elder is back on the radio. Not syndicated around Portland though, as far as I can tell.
28 January 1986 - STS-51L - OV-99 Challenger Ronald E. McNair - Ellison S. Onizuka - Judith A. Resnik Francis R. Scobee - Michael J. Smith Sharon Christa McAuliffe - Gregory B. Jarvis IN MEMORIAM
I do not know how I am going to continue.
And the rest of the world sucks so much I'm not feeling a lot of motivation:
Again with "sporting purposes". The Second Amendment isn't about sport.
Hoffman looks ahead to the next round of infringements.
Cops are liars and thieves. All of them. Where are the honest cops turning in the dirty ones? Ain't none! That equation goes the other direction.
And they violently overreact to every situation, however innocent and trivial. Clear and present danger to public safety. But we're the ones who can't be trusted....
Quote o' the Day: "Distrust anyone in whom the desire to punish is powerful." - Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no justice, and not much "law" neither. When "law" is whatever some thug with a badge says it is, what recourse have we?
And the border's still open too....
Speaking of the border, as a patriotic nationalist pro-sovereignty anti-prohibitionist libertarian, this news item makes my brain itch.
Next time I make it to Wyoming, I'm #$&%in' staying.
In defense of British imperialism, there is one right and good thing it created.
Another day living in enemy-occupied territory, where any innocent citizen can be randomly assaulted and robbed at gunpoint. Now cops are whining about a "war on cops" - yeah you started it. Cops are not just on the wrong side, they are the wrong side.
Newbius has the Astute Observation o' the Day.
I don't have SiteMeter or any other traffic-tracking system on this site, so if the fascist thugs of the occupying force are pinging me in an attempt at intimidation, I'm not even noticing.
Want....
Not blowing up the federal buildings... yet. But we can see it from here.
More yet on "mental" "health". Your entire life can be destroyed on a bureaucrat's baseless whim.
Prohibition always fails. But they always "Do it again, harder"....
In ten years, TSA has not stopped or caught a single terrorist. Second comment.
Jack-Booted Thug o' the Week. "Can't stop the signal." I have got to get me a dozen-odd of those little cameras....
Now watch, they're gonna try to prohibit cameras. Maybe they'll call it the Johannes Mehserle Act....
Show & chat every Sunday 1100PT.
Überkitteh....
Oh f***....
Oh wow, another big fat donation. -Of course I'm changing banks at the moment so there's some e-percolating to be done, but the owner of the yard I'm working has offered an advance and in any case whew.
For a little while....
More yardwork today, back late and tired. And I blew up the electric chainsaw! -Not really but the motor was making Too Many Sparks. Just used up, I think, they've had it for a long time.
Meanwhile in Project Gunwalker. Who's next for the Vince Foster treatment?
Yeah, that's right, we got long memories....
It's not about sport.
Cops hate citizens and want them to die, Chapter MMDCCLXXXVI. Right back atcha.
BTR gets his fangs out: "He and his ilk want to control the behavior and the rights of every citizen in this state." It's not about safety. It's about control.
Again with doctors and guns and politics and boundary violations, but:
"[A] Florida measure that would slap heavy fines and even jail time on physicians who ask about the presence of firearms in the homes of patients...." Yeah Florida's on the list too. ...But, Constitutional issues raised in comments.
Speaking of Florida.
Astute Observation o' the Day: "It would be a radical departure from existing case law to hold that Congress can regulate inactivity under the Commerce Clause." -That's not stopping them from trying. Torches and pitchforks and the occasional bayonet, I think, will be required to stop them....
The question is not whether the 1911 is obsolete, but which 1911 the Marines will buy a bunch of next. All Hail Saint John.
Haven't fallen off yet, and still have all appendages.
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