RIFLEMAN'S JOURNAL - FEBRUARY 2012
The World Sucks
Got the rent paid, thanks again to EvilWoman. Gah. I get paid weekly so I should be able to start nibbling at the rest.
Then, getting a box of the cheap corn dogs at the supermarket where I got the money order 'cause I can't trust the slumlords to process a check in less than three weeks, yet another parasite loading up on top-grade steak - like a dozen pounds of it - paying with EBT and getting $100 of my money and yours too in cash back. When I can barely keep gas in a car that threatens to fall apart every time I start it to go to work.
Thought Police? In America? That's Crazy Talk!
"No, CSGV does not like having an attractive, educated and independent woman standing up to them and demanding the District of Columbia respect her and her rights." Or as I've been saying and saying and saying, they hate us and want us to die.
Michael G. sends, "...[T]his seems like an airtight opportunity to show that lawbreakers who wear badges won’t automatically get away with it." Once in a while the Thug Culture does sacrifice a handful of their own, to fool their victims into thinking they're not all bad. But they are. "Most of the time, police do their jobs honorably and honestly." I don't know which explanation is more disturbing; they told her to say that, or she actually believes it.
I am gratified to see someone else using the term crimes against humanity.
In Lighter News
Keeping an eye on Iowa, where there is also a Constitutional Carry bill in the works.
The Jan/Feb 1982 issue of American Handgunner is archived. Featuring some .38 wadcutter Science on page 8.
In my utopia, I postulate everyone having their own wristwatch-size personal computer/comm/entertainer vastly more powerful than the 3.2GHz quadcore AwesomeBox I'm typing this on. Working on it.
Yeah cheer me up some more why don't you.
("...[A]n absolute display of impotence by the GOP leadership.")
But that's not what we have now, as illustrated by Project Gunwalker.
'The “solutions” prescribed to solve both Global Warming and the looming Ice Age are exactly the same.'
Because it's not about safety or health or the environment. It's about total control.
They hate women and want them to die from cancer. -U$ed to be, 9 months of the year, I'd attend the bowling pin shoot at Wolverton. Part of the match fee is donated to one of those cancer organizations. They send back thank-you letters. Which side is really concerned about women's safety and health?
"EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW". It's written in stone. And some people want to make gravel.
Snark o' the Day: "Subsidize" is not defined as "fail to confiscate more than 30%."
AND. THEY. CALL. US. "RACIST".
"Protect and Serve" who?
For some time now I've had Injustice Everywhere linked on my front page. I hardly ever visit the site because it makes me unutterably furious. Anyhow the guy who runs it is having a motivational crisis. He deserves your support, go give it.
Wait, what? Remington EtronX? That's not "new", it's a decade or more old, I remember it in the glossy magazines.
If guns are outlawed, go Rambo on their ass.
Y'all will know of Cato's interactive map of murderers-with-badges. Well now they have one for acts of righteous self-defense. A useful tool for those of you with the stomach to debate the violently-insane enemy.
Gah, downtown again. Light load so they combined another route with mine so I wouldn't be paid less. Which logic is to be appreciated, but "a cop on every streetcorner" creeps me right the hell out.
Winter must be over, the little black ants are back in the kitchen. >:-[
(Again with the child porn. Certain kinds of "people" are drawn to law enforcement. Because it's about control.)
And as if on cue. I also am at a loss for words. No I'm not: The only good cop is a dead cop.
Because they all look the same to me.
EuroReader sends Thought Police Auxiliary Recruiting Poster (270Kb .PDF). So anyone with a laptop or smartphone is an Enemy of the State?
Meanwhile in government school: '...[T]he drill is not about keeping the kids safe - it's about getting them used to the state "taking care" of them....' Burn them down. For the children.
And they call us racist, Chapter MMMCLIV.
[thought=considered] Anyone who, in seriousness and earnest, says anything like "If you don't have anything to hide, you have nothing to worry about" should be immediately executed as a clear and present danger to humanity.
Last week it seemed to me that Tom Gresham was putting down Open Carry with phrases the antis use, chip-on-shoulder, something-to-prove, in-your-face. This week he's going to be interviewing someone who supports recently-introduced OC legislation in Utah. Ya know, Tom, some of us are keeping notes. And didn't you start out supporting your good friend and long-time colleague Zumbo when he showed his prohibitionist colors?
Interesting, I'm getting way more views of my BFT/BFD videos than of almost anything else I posted. My very first video, the 2x4 shoot, has passed 300 views. Of six in the last 30 days, one was from Thailand. YT Analytics, which I glance at once in a while, show that somehow this one has got loose among the international intarwebz.
Most people never use their computers to a fraction of their capacity. This laptop - sometimes I have a stop at one of the colleges around town, with a big sprawling confusing campus (infested with 99ers and similar brainwashees ambling blindly about with iPods stuck in their ears and thinking they're going to chaaaange the wuuurrrlld but that's a whole other conversation), so last time I was at the library appropriating their precious bandwidth, I went to the college's official site, found a .PDF of their campus map, and saved it to the desktop. Tools. For work.
First World Problem: After each day's route I typically stop at the library to get out of the weather, type up the report, and webmail it to the office. Then I read a book while downloading stuff. I've downloaded so much stuff I don't have time to look at it all. :D
EuroReader sends yet another atrocity. From comments: Victim: You smashed into my house and assaulted me! Cops: {sounds of paper shredding in background} No, we didn’t. So now we have to wire our own homes for surveillance with live uploading to remote storage? To protect ourselves from our "protectors"? The only logical course of action is to immediately and with all available force repel anyone or anything coming through your door without your permission. Because they are there to murder you, no matter whose gang colors they're wearing. You have nothing left to lose.
Recalling yesterday's FBI .PDF, here's a bunch of them. For future reference.
Michael G. sends an endorsement for NRA elections.
Codrea looks into the past. I'll have that added to my own archive early next week.
Another rifleman's blog.
Random question from rabid Rammstein fan EvilWoman: What do they use for firearm solvents/lubricants in Germany? Do they import Hoppe's and CLP from us, or do they have their own stuff? Since the United States is the only country in history - aside from Switzerland of course - to have a real culture based on the unalienable human right of self-defense, has anyone else ever developed such products?
Every time....
"A man accused of fatally shooting a police officer and wounding five others during an Ogden drug raid last month says he feared for his life because he thought people were breaking into his home to rob and kill him." Well... they were.
He was RIGHT.
There is no such thing as a good cop. Scroll down for a rant. (Reminder.) If this were still a free country police would not exist.
POLICESHOULDNOTEXIST.
Show & chat every Sunday 1100PT.
Oh crap do not want. But need. I'm doing much walking and an occasional bit of jog for the current delivery job, so that's not nothing, but an actual US Marine is like a different species.
Paycheck less than expected - until I realized I was looking at next pay period's figures in the spreadsheet and the projection was close enough after all. Anyway still not much. At least the internet's covered and I have some fuel and food but gah. And then there's taxes ARMED ROBBERY UNDER COLOR OF LAW on a 1099.
And they call us racist, Chapter MMMCLVII. Seriously, do these bigots ever listen to themselves?
Related: IT'S THE JOOOOOOS GUN OWNERS!!1!!!1!elebenty!!1!!!
February 2012 American Rifleman, pg52, yet another bootlicking article, this one on the Federal Bureau of Incineration's ballistics unit. Vicki Weaver could not be reached for comment.
I guess that makes me an Enemy of the State. Yeah, well, I glory in the name.
Progress in Illinois?
FABBERS
February 2012 American Rifleman, pg68, review of the FNP-45 pistol. Plastic. And a photo of the rear, showing the sight picture, also shows stamped sheetmetal frame rails. With an MSRP of $795. While you can get a Philippine clone 1911 for $500 made of actual steel designed by the greatest genius in the history of firearms and the most combat-proven handgun of all time. Sigh, what Col. Cooper called the Marketeers... my nose, it is turned up.
Yeah, it's like that.
More downtown work today. See, I have a character flaw: When I have a job, I show up every day on time and actually do the work. As can be expected, this leads to me getting everyone else's work. I'm feeling Atlas-y, why can't I Shrug? -Now in fairness the guy at the office is actually trying to help me out by giving me more work so I get more pay on slow days when I would otherwise have an unprofitable route, spending more in fuel to pick up the handful of packages than I would earn delivering them. I grok. But I HATE CITIES AND CITYFOLK. If I ever set foot in Wyoming again I will stay there if I have to eBay a kidney.
My screennamesake said, "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
And that's what we have now.
"About 90 District of Columbia workers have been suspended and may be fired after officials determined they received unemployment checks while holding city jobs." And that's just the ones who got caught.
Michael G. sends the atrocity of the day. EuroReader sends, the social compact is broken. Weerd has thieves in uniform. The "protectors" are the ones we need protection from. Police should not exist. We don't need them, we don't want them, we are better off without them.
Atlas Shrugged movie is not dead.
Still working on Stand-Your-Ground in Iowa.
And Castle Doctrine in Massachusetts.
Technology is endlessly awsumm. Think back to the first personal computers - the Apples, the TIs, even the TRS-80. Now think about what you're reading this on. Or think about the very first automobiles, in nineteen-oh-something, compared to even the $500 econo-beater in that guy's driveway down the street. Then, look at this solar-power experiment and contemplate where it can lead. Cheap, widely-available energy can change everything. And the eco-freaks don't figure into it, that's not what it's about.
Compare and contrast:
Every law enforcement officer, everywhere, is the enemy. Cops are worse than what they're supposed to be "protecting" us from. The "laws" are wrong and the enforcers are evil.
Speaking of wrong and evil, nuke the island and sow the glowing remains with salt.
The Stupid Party and the Evil Party are the same party. I reckon I'll feed the ballot to the shredder, stay home on election day, and make cartridges. If I haven't been summarily murdered as an Enemy of the State by then.
GEORGIA CONSTITUTIONAL CARRY ACTION TOMORROW MORNING. Jump on it.
Accuracy matters, and not just on paper.
Government can't make anything like this. Can't.
I LAUGHED SO HARD I GAVE MYSELF A TOOTHACHE
Yeah I got yer #$%^& taxes right here. The only reason a tiny gang of bureaucrat parasites keep stealing what we work for is because we let them.
Action in Illinois. Which meanwhile still sucks.
Global Warming My Ass, Chapter MMMCLX. But they still want to force us to live in caves wearing grass skirts and dying of the common cold by age 40.
Meanwhile in government school....
So much for that "free exercise thereof" thingy.
IT'S NOT ABOUT SAFETY. IT'S ABOUT CONTROL.
If I see a cop bleeding out on a sidewalk I will assume he violated one innocent citizen too many and deserves to die in a pool of his own blood. Cops are the bad guys and the world would be a better place without them.
Even "mainstream conservatives" are finally getting their noses rubbed in the fact that the "laws" are wrong and the enforcers are evil. Though they still have blinders on in most cases. They sense something is wrong but can't bring themselves to admit what.
Hmph.
I am getting heartily sick of the downtown-downtown portion. Can't afford to Shrug.
The destroyers of human rights think they're the good guys and cannot be convinced they are wrong.
(They think they're the good guys....)
(Cannot be convinced they are wrong....)
The social compact is broken.
The usual from "mainstream" media.
Because we LET them.
It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you.
That link was a Quote o' the Day, but I like this one even better: 'It's up to us to provide the "or else."'
Remember all that bother about campaign finance reform and a culture of corruption and buying elections? Oh it's just fine when they do it.
Speaking of remembering things, SMLE Fan has your history lesson o' the day.
ALZHEIMER'S CURE!? That-there is one disease which scares the poo outta me lemme tell ya. Would not want to live with it.
HAN SHOT FIRST DAMMIT!
Heinlein quotes.
"Global Warming" My Ass....
"Dennis Flaherty, executive director of the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association, said the [Castle Doctrine] bill could result in dangerous situations for police officers, who regularly enter homes without permission." AS IT DAMN WELL SHOULD. Any thug coming through your door without your permission is evil and deserves to die no matter whose gang colors he's wearing.
"And the reason I haven’t been to a doctor in seven years is...."
$IGH. -Trivia: Early Browning Auto-5 shotguns have a safety on the safety, a Glock-type safety to activate the Garand-type safety.
Oh yeah, the February 1962 issue of Guns is archived.
Yeah.
Srsly.
“The law is an ass.” Chapter MMMCLXIII.
"The problem is that the police aren’t really trying to make a distinction between actual criminals and the rest of us anymore."
"...[W]hen you’re a member of a higher caste of citizen sworn to uphold the law, you are not bound by them."
Dr. Pournelle usually has something intelligent to say. Scroll through a bunch more of it for "What you have not shown here is why your needs must be met by compulsory collections from someone else." I have received an embarrassing amount of charity, not least through this-here 'blog, but I didn't get a cent of it at bayonet-point.
Show & chat every Sunday 1100PT. Rerun, tuned out and left chat early.
SavaShip has the (tainted, tax-paid) little bit of justice o' the day.
SMLE Fan scores the Quote o' the Day: "An unruly population is not a bug, it’s a feature."
Have any of y'all read the old Larry Niven Known Space books, particularly the original Ringworld? Remember reference to a flashlight-laser, an adjustable device to provide either illumination or cutting ability? Working on it. -Dang, I typed that before I read the very first comment which made that very connection. -Ouch, $500-600. :(
DANGEROUSLY-DISORGANIZED RELOADING TABLE OF DOOOOMMMM!!! Actually poked at it some today, processing some .45ACP brass, excavating some .357, taking note of .308 and .30-06, rediscovering the priming tool - and, for upcoming tutorial videos, unearthing the Lee Load-All II to make 12-gauge dummy rounds. (Select a handful of matching hulls; decap and resize; leave primer pocket empty; insert styrofoam packing peanut to fill powder space and give the wad something to sit on; install conventional plastic one-piece wad and appropriate shot, then crimp. I'm also scripting a tutorial video on the Load-All II, much of which is already written.) Need to cast more .45 bullets....
If Ron Paul, by some miracle, wins the GOP nomination, I think I can hold my nose and vote for him though he will be dangerously weak on foreign policy. But that's not bloody likely. There is no functional difference between incumbent and challengers. They all hate us and want us to die.
The social compact is broken. They refuse to protect us (which our taxes PAY them to do) and forbid us to protect ourselves (treating US like criminals if we try) and then punish the victim. Society would be better without police.
"Police officers have magical powers others don’t and are, therefore, exempt from the law." Yeah I can think of some laws they're not exempt from....
What kind of "people" don't want us able to defend ourselves?
"...[N]either rational, nor healthy", that's what kind.
I get paid Mondays. First I $tress through the day hoping the fuel holds out, I get the deliveries done, then sputter-and-gasp the car to the bank, then to the gas station, then usually to the supermarket. I'm really starting to hate the supermarket.
Things governments can't do....
Ivory Tower Incoherence, Chapter MMMCLXIV. Here it is half through the month and I still don't have enough for rent, to say nothing of the badly-overdue electric bill. If I had Money with a capital Em I'd damn well spend it how I damn well pleased, and damn anyone who told me different.
And they call us "racist".
"...I’ve accidentally stumbled into the nicest group of people on the internet!" Why yes, yes you have. ;)
BTR keeps an eye on the Iowa sausage machine.
$igh.... Do recall, legend holds that this was the only pistol Col. Cooper would allow in the same room with a 1911.
Speaking of reloading, I HAVE FOUND THIS TO BE TRUE.
Cast more .45 bullets last night, lubing and sizing over the next couple days. Have fixin's for a couple hundred rounds of .357, I'll whip those out soon. Then I have to look at the '06 situation. (Brass ain't the problem. Nor primers, at least for this season.) Tucson Tom gifted me a can of LC M2, and I have some LC72 I bought at the club a few years ago before they started rationing it for CMP matches. No word on IPSC(-style) yet but the first Garand match of six I would normally attend is in May. Need to address the Queen's gas cylinder again, and get some srs range time. Still don't own a shotgun or "modern" rifle (the Queen has tactical disadvantages for racing, though of course far fewer for actual fighting; more to the point she's expensive to feed) so I can't do 3-Gun, though I learned at the show Saturday that another club is having a 3-Gun match every month.
I did not take part in today's Starbuck's Buycott because I can't bloody afford it. Even though I walk past a half-dozen of the places in a typical day's work.
They refuse to protect us and forbid us to protect ourselves. Is that not the very definition of evil?
You want examples? Can't click a mouse without hitting them:
It's about control.
IT'S ABOUT CONTROL.
Schadenfreude? Yes, I haz it. Elitist bigot deserves to get the same treatment he's forcing all of us to endure.
Self-defense. It's a human right.
And they call us "nuts".
RAoP has moved because Google is teh 3vi1.
This isn't entirely lighter news because the victim was robbed by her "protectors".
Be a staarrrr of teh internets!!! Here's your script.
The April 2012 issue of Guns magazine is archived.
Project Gunwalker....
Forty dollars? That's a couple week's groceries. Or one week's fuel. -But in the spirit of the article, two boxes of Hornady #3037.
Burn down all government schools. HtWW also rants, I presume; I haven't watched it yet because I ration bandwidth at the hovel and didn't stop at the library after work today. Also see.
[thought=random] Glock: The choice of tax-paid uniformed rapists who don't know which end the bullets come out of and don't care either.
"We're delighted that Justice Breyer was not hurt during this incident...." I'm not. I'M NOT. The parasites have been destroying our lives without consequences for too long.
And if you think things are bad here, compared to anywhere else in the world America is still the shining beacon of liberty. "Police will still need a warrant to actually read the online communications of suspects." Suuuure they will. And the "judge" "signing" that "warrant" will have taken the subject's natural human rights fully into account, uh huh.
It is getting really hard to get out of bed each morning because I see the lights going out all over the world and the darkness creeps a little closer every day and there's nothing I can do to stop it.
Hofmann has some snark.
Update on Georgia Constitutional Carry.
Encore l'Prohibition FAIL.
Gunwalker, and related issues. It does appear the fix is in. This is part of a much larger pattern. This illustrates the illegitimacy of all government at all levels.
Are you paying attention? Government has no legitimacy. EVERYTHING THEY DO IS WRONG.
PJM also notes the evil of government school, and of all government. "...[B]ecause they can." Because we let them.
Another attempt to murder the internet. Anything government can register, government can destroy. Which, as history proves, includes human beings.
Thieves in uniform....
Again with the terrorism. I know who the domestic terrorists are....
Progress in Illinois-of-all-places? No, probably not....
I read a lot, but there are many classics I've never read. I mean Classics like Iliad or Jason and the Argonauts. David Drake has though. I've just finished Voyage Across the Stars, an omnibus of two novels set in the Hammer's Slammers universe, which retells the tales of Ulysses and of the Argonauts. The science in Drake's science fiction continues to have squishy spots but he tells a damn good story under all circumstances. I'm particularly looking forward to The Road of Danger, his next RCN novel - that series has flavor of a Kipling-esque magnitude. You can smell the strange alien vegetation and feel the insect-analogues nibbling at you. Meanwhile, starting Grantville Gazette VI.
I'm supposed to vote for what?
Codrea gets his Heinlein on, and not in a happy way.
What can I add to Hofmann's latest column except the old refrain, They hate us and want us to die?
(And their minds don't work right either.)
("...[Y]ou lose track of the fact that you're actually talking to a crazy person....")
More elitist bigotry....
When I read this post my thoughts were 1) With all this "quantitative easing", how does anyone know they're fake and 2) Does it matter anymore?
In the news, a trained, professional government agent shoots another government agent and is in turn shot and killed by a third government agent.
But we can't be trusted?
“The police are already pretty brutal....” Yes, we know. -Ya know, folks, there are very simple and inexpensive ways to disable fascistmobiles.... Those bottles I collect for the refunds, maybe I should be setting some aside.
FREE RYAN JEROME. And throw his persecutors in the cage.
"Security is an illusion. It keeps you from curling into a ball and screaming until the universe inevitably betrays and eats you." And as if on cue.
It's not about safety. It's about total, absolute control.
And loot. It's also about loot.
As if the domestic terrorists weren't enough, there are actual, you know, terrorist-type terrorists.
A little bit of improvement in Canada.
The third item, after picking my jaw up from the floor, made me giggle for several minutes. Somebody actually said that out loud?
I would rather have to deal with packs of feral dogs than live in this city. Any city. Because in the cities, the packs wear badges.
HAN SHOT FIRST -That's not entirely Lighter, no. They hate us and want us to die. And movies suck.
And despite the cookie dough and the tub of Neapolitan ice cream (does Spumoni come in tubs?) (I re-use the tubs for sorting brass DON'T JUDGE ME), my physical condition is improving with the parking-and-hiking. (Also I'm eating oranges now.) I notice I have more wind, and the exercise is also helping keep the family arthritis at bay, at least in the legs. On a real US military fitness course (for awesome example) I'd still be puking up a lung by the first marker, but I can hike a mile or few if necessary, with a pack even. At 5kph or better I might add.
Getting lots of views, and new subscribers, from my BFT/BFD videos. I have more in the works, even the first BFC, Basic Firearms Cleaning, on how I clean a rifle bore. -And I just got the concept for BFC#2, Revolvers. Because chambers. Script for BFD#3, M1911, appears complete, might get recorded this weekend; and BFD#4, M1 Garand, is being scripted. BFT#6 would be on the '98 Mauser I think, since I have both civilian and military flavors, but I need dummy rounds in 7.62x51 and 7.92x57 for proper illustration.
"...[G]un owner inaction is as great a threat as any committed enemy we face."
Yes. Yes it is.
It's not about "health", it's about total control.
Screwing up the gumption to make some .357 and .45 rounds, now that I have everything else prepared - except I discover I have much less handgun powder than I thought. My established recipes for both happen to use the same charge of the same powder, 5.6gr W231 (.53 cavity in Lee Auto-Disk) under the 239-ish-gr cast .451 and 157-ish-gr cast .358. But I have only about 1/4 jug of modern, and one-and-1/3 cans of vintage, W231:
And I can't afford to pick up another jug or two at Bi-Mart until, like, Spring. I'm inclined to dump all three together and roll the result about some to blend it. Any alarm bells going off among my readers at that idea? They all look the same and they smell healthy.
$igh, rifle matches coming up and I could really use an Appleseed before then. This one is 150 miles from the hovel and this one is only a handful of miles closer. Maybe they're not listed yet but it's possible the Castle Rock location is no longer in operation. -Oh hey, this one appears much closer, day-trip distance, but the first two are the same days as Garand matches. 9_9
While waiting for answers to the powder question, recorded BFD#3, 1911, and #4, Garand. Editing now, they should be uploaded by Monday evening when I stop at the library after work.
I see someone else is putting the quote-marks around "law". Because the "laws" are wrong.
And as EuroReader points out, the enforcers are evil.
("The bastards probably imagine they are heroically saving lives when they kick in doors and shoot people and their dogs during a drug raid." They think they're the good guys. That's really sick.)
([thought=notrandomatall] The end of prohibition would be the worst thing that could happen to the drug cartels. If the stuff weren't illegal, it wouldn't be worth billions and they wouldn't be slaughtering each other for it. We learned that lesson nearly a century ago and promptly forgot it when another opportunity for loot and power came along. Ending the War on (Some) Drugs would win that war. Ask yourself, who really wants to continue prohibition? Cui bono?)
Related, among much other material worth your bandwidth, Dr. Pournelle's entry for the day contains: "...[T]he courts don’t approve of laws that reform the system." Which applies to... just about every law in every system, never mind education.
To which can be added other Quotes o' the Day. -To which I must add what another poster added to the second: "The worst thing about living in the declining era of a great civilization...is knowing that you are." - R.A. Heinlein
(That reminds me, there are at least two more volumes in Poul Anderson's Flandry series I must read....)
Codrea contemplates NRA BoD elections. I already sent my ballot.
BFD#3 & #4 are processed and awaiting bandwidth. #4 turned out poorly because of lighting conditions and my old camera. I could really use a high(er)-definition video camera if I'm going to do more of these, but I have too many other expenses first. -Aaakshually I had to return an item at the library today so I took the laptop along and they're online. Besides the library will be closed tomorrow, and while Petze's battery probably would last that long I don't want to sit in their parking lot with rain forecast and all the windows fogging up if I turn the blower off for thirty seconds.
Collecting opinions on yesterday's powder question. The two old cans are the same lot number so I could just start with those, and blend the dregs of the modern can into my next modern can.
)&*#%^@&%^))*_)(!!!!
So SMLE Fan informs me that AVG has finally fixed their free antivirus software, which has been bugged out on 64-bit systems for months. So I spend much of my rationed bandwidth downloading the updates and all seems well. Then it says there's some kind of Trojan in DESKTOP.INI. Which is several kinds of double-plus ungood. It tries, and fails, to heal the infection. Eventually I have to reboot AwesomeBox and, as expected, there's a lot more re- than -boot. Dig out the XPPro64 CD, boot from CD... "Press any key to boot from CD" doesn't $^%&ing work when it hasn't recognized the USB keyboard yet at that point in the boot cycle. Dig out old PS2 keyboard and plug it into the legacy port in the back and finally it begins a repair process. Doesn't look like I've lost anything beyond icon positions and window sizes (and video drivers which I downloaded an install package for) (and autoplay preferences) (and...) but *^%$!@*##(^&()$^!!!!!
This is why nearly all my actual documents, pictures, and videos are on physically separate drives, so if I have to nuke C: I only have to tediously reinstall the drivers and applications instead of weeping over lost gigabytes.
And then AVG thinks the license (for the free version?) doesn't match so I have to reinstall it again, risking Cricket downshifting my speed. #*&^%$&*!@^%$*(^$* This is why I buy the tub of ice cream.
While the domestic enemies celebrate armed robbery under color of law.
Yer tellin' me about gas prices? I drive for a living, driving is my job. Anything left after paying for fuel and all is spent on shooting, and all the clubs and ranges are a half-hour drive or further.
First they came for the Catholics.... This is about so much more than what house which god is prayed to in.
Michael G. sends: "So far, the Democrats War on Reality is massively successful."
Speaking of war on reality, during the Occupy parasitism, a poster went around the 'tubes:
You mean like this? No sane person still believes government cares about people. No sentient being still believes corporations and government are separate entities (Solyndra, the Chevy Volt, compact flourescent lightbulbs, electronic voting machines...). And I still get out of bed in the morning and go to work as though it matters....
You know what I want to hear in a campaign ad? "I'm so-and-so and I'm running for President of the United States. "I'm not going to tell you what I will do for you. I'm going to tell you what I won't do for you. "I won't tell you who you can or cannot sleep with. "I won't tell you what you can or cannot put into your own body. "I won't tell you what you must or must not purchase with your own hard-earned money. "I won't steal that money from you to bribe my supporters, prop up foreign dictators, or reward people for not working for a living. "I won't send your loved ones to be killed in an endless series of foreign misadventures. "I'm so-and-so, and as President, those are the things I won't do for you... or to you."
Hmpf.
Living hand-to-mouth. Or hand-to-electric-bill. Should be enough to avoid shutoff.
Extremely light load today, which will hurt next pay period. Have the rent set aside though, finally.
Things could be worse. And probably will be.
AVG is still finding Trojans, though in less-critical areas. Windows re-updates appear to be done....
It's not a $&^%ing joke anymore. (More)
With "friends" like these....
Michael G. sends: "...[T]he distinction between a crime syndicate and a law-enforcement agency often can be difficult to draw with any precision." They don't become cops to help people. That's not what cops are for. Oh sure, someone said something different when the thing was first set up, but that never lasts long. -The point of the linkage is, the author qualifies his statement by referring to "exotic parts of the world", to which Michael answers, "The obvious retort is you don't need to go anyplace more exotic than your own back yard to discover this."
Example: Separately Michael points out a pleasing demographic trend, but then I find this report from a woman who wants women to be defenseless, about how our "protectors" openly refuse to provide the contracted protection. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, gals? Y'all ain't even on your own side.
Do you see the pattern? "There's a lot of money in fascist government, if you're the government."
"It doesn't have to make sense. It's just a government rule." Enforced with the threat of destruction, robbery and murder.
A market is growing for home fortification. "...[T]he distinction between a crime syndicate and a law-enforcement agency" is vanishing.
Or already has. That right there, that's what's wrong with America.
And so is this: "They (people carrying weapons) will be treated with respect and dignity but they will be challenged." "Treated with respect and dignity" while being accosted, detained, robbed, and quite possibly murdered with impunity for the "crime" of exercising a natural human right. Hey cops! You want to know why we hate you? Because you're the bad guys!
Codrea reviews a DVD by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman.
Michael G. sends more on the death of the Canadian arms registry.
I remind you of serious riflery. I needs me an Appleseed....
OC in OK?
Tam has a product review. -I was e-discussing .22LR cartridges with MidwestReader just the other day. I find my selection is based just about entirely on economics and logistics. If my preferred store carries Brand X, and product X-745 is on sale, that's what I get. For the past few years Brand X has been Federal, specifically Champion #745 copper-plated hollowpoint 525-round bulk pack, on sale at Bi-Mart this week for $14.97. I've seen guys win action handgun matches with it. Also, more conventional brick packaging, #510 unplated solid - that's the stuff I used to get the patch. But it's not pure economics; I have given up on the entire Remington/Peters line (most specifically including Thunderbolt and anything Golden) for .22LR no matter the bargain.
Yyyyyeah it's like that....
Killed my wireless mouse. Wore it out like my first digital camera. Since this was my only mouse that means I don't have one to take along for Petze for when the touchpad overheats. $igh, $12.99 for a USB replacement, at least I had that much cash. Now I'm all finicky about a mouse, I want the forward/back buttons on the side now, which this economy model doesn't have. Internet $hopping for the next time I have money....
Dead crooks might seem like Lighter News, but Workman glosses over the part where the thieves-with-badges show up to destroy the victim. Michael G. adds, "...Polk County prosecutor Sarcone, the one who pressed charges in the case, opposes stand your ground laws. He has the gall to say this case proves the current system works and there is no need to change the law. It should be no surprise that he also opposed shall issue laws." In other words they hate us and want us to die.
The feeling is reciprocated, to be sure. See also: "Live free or die - unless you embarass the local PD."
It doesn't take much research at all to discover where a big bunch of cops have breakfast together. When the Civil Cold War turns openly hot, well, it'll be rough on the restaurant staff I expect, but hey, collaborators....
Without consequences, "...they will simply continue to be evil."
Huffman draws the Parallel o' the Day.
"Net access, especially through mobile devices, is improving the human condition...." And that just can't be allowed.
Everyone needs Appleseed. Not least to frighten the bad guys.
Hoo-aah, 289 rounds .357 completed last night. A rather lesser quantity - after much brass was stolen a couple years ago - of .45 will be done next gumption-time. Then I'll have to look at the '06... and the Queen's gas cylinder....
When setting up the scheduled scans in AVG, I accidentally clicked Tuesday and Wednesday, so I just let it run again. Says it's clean this time.
And I keep getting out of bed in the morning and going to work as though it matters....
Remember some kind of arrest at last year's SHOT? “...[J]ustice department prosecutors were repeatedly unable to prove to juries that what the defendants had done was illegal.” Obviously we need to get rid of that pesky Sixth Amendment thingy.
...[O]ne more layer of depravity to the mountain of evil that is forcible citizen disarmament."
Just one more....
“I was so scared that somebody was going to come in and say, ‘OK, that’s it. You’re coming with us.’” Brother, I know how you feel. Everyone responsible for the destruction of this innocent man's life should be publicly executed.
And all their kind.
What "kind"? The kind that would shoot an unarmed woman in the face at 200 yards, that's what kind.
Another Lee Paige Award. But they don't trust us.
And they call us "terrorists"?
When the Civil Cold War openly turns hot....
So much for that First Amendment thingy. Talk about unstable freaks in black robes.
"...[T]eleporting magic ninja fights on top of flaming pirate dirigibles." WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED TO KNOW?
Little Bit o' Justice o' the Day. Still needs more rope.
Free Ebil Anti-Gubmint Book! Complete with Ebil Anti-Gubmint Plan! I'm'a download that app next time I'm using the library's bandwidth.
Gunwalker.... Ya know, Mexico has been a basket case for the last 102 years but that doesn't excuse acts of war by the United States government against a sovereign nation.
Power corrupts, again. "Another dirty cop gets off with far less."
"I was more inclined to mercy back then than I am now...."
And they don't trust us.
Cops are nothing more than rape-gangs with badges. That's why they become cops.
Once in a while the Thug Culture does sacrifice one of its own to maintain the illusion they're not all like that. But I know they are.
What's wrong with America.
Astute Observation o' the Day: "They are consistently anti self-defense because what they fear most is their victims stopping them, Permanently!"
Related, my choice for Quote o' the Day is from the quoter: "When someone suggests gun registration is a good thing you know they are ignorant, stupid, and/or evil. You should determine which and deal with them appropriately."
OPERATION #EFAD
ALL HAIL SAINT JOHN
Does this qualify as a Streisand Effect?
"Just to piss them off."
Again with "assault weapons". Suuuure, it's not evil when they do it. And boycott Aimpoint now? Hofmann doesn't call for it but the implication is clear to me.
NUKE CANADA 'TILL IT GLOWS.
And watch for the infection to spread here. So much for that Fourth Amendment thingy. If these blatantly unConstitutional, unAmerican acts of tyranny under color of "law" are not justification for using lethal force in self-defense, what the hell is?
Meanwhile in the law of unintended consequences.... Now the revenue-nazis will start raiding dive shops? Demanding customer lists at gunpoint? Doing felony stops on any car with the red-and-white bumper sticker?
"[T]ime for a new Magna Carta"? What, are the rulers running short of toilet paper? Another document isn't going to stop the evil. The only way to stop evil is to kill it dead.
A while back, Michael G. wondered if someone was keeping track of Fusion Centers and the like. Question answered.
Armed self-defense WORKS. Anyone who doesn't want us to have the capability is evil.
As expected....
The short-short version of current US Army pistol qual course is, if I am reading it correctly, they use the ginormous rigid plastic "E type silhouette," which is basically a very approximate humanoid shape (or milk bottle shape, if you prefer), 19.5" wide by 40" tall. They shoot at thirty of these targets ("target sequences will vary") from 7 to 31 meters distance, but with no more than two at 7m and no more than 1 at 31m, with rather generous-sounding time limits, usually 6-7 rounds supplied for a group of five targets, 13 rounds for 10, etc., and scored strictly hit/miss. You can miss four of the thirty completely and still get an "expert" badge. The "E" target has a 4" circle in the center of mass and a 2" by 4" rectangle in the middle of the head, but these areas are apparently not scored on the current official version of the course, either you hit the target somewhere or you didn't. And they get 4-5 seconds for each individual target. To qualify you must hit at least sixteen of the thirty. "Marksman" = 16-20 hits, "Sharpshooter" = 21-25, "Expert" = 26-30. On targets that are mostly going to be 10/15/20/25 meters away, with only one at 31m and two at 7m. With five rounds supplied for groups of four targets, seven for groups of five, and thirteen for groups of ten.
...Um. I'm... underwhelmed. As I responded, libertarian questions and Founders' warnings about standing armies aside, if you're going to have a standing army it should know how to kill people and break things. I shudder to think what Army riflery has become these days....
Separately MidwestReader sends 10/22 peep sight roundup. FWIW I saw a whole bunch of Tech Sights at my last two Appleseeds.
In case you missed it: “One of the criticisms I make is to what I refer to as more of a Libertarianish right. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues. That is not how traditional conservatives view the world. There is no such society that I am aware of, where we’ve had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture.” That's right folks, a candidate for President of these United States said that out loud. And it wasn't Obama.
They're all like that....
"I never could wrap my mind around the fact that its against the law to protect myself from a cop who's performing an illegal act." Neither could I.
Aaaand a picture worth a thousand dirty words. WHY ARE WE NOT KILLING THEM? They are evil and they deserve to die.
Yeah this belongs in suckage: I have found this to be true. Even an Appleseed is a major expense for me. I could really use some proper handgun instruction.
SMLE Fan points out 80% 10/22 receivers.
I belatedly draw y'all's attention to Command Post Exercise Foxtrot. Sit down and read it thoroughly. The phrase is "leaderless resistance". You know somebody, somewhere, who feels as you do. We are not alone.
Nanites? Working on it.
MOAR OPERATION #EFAD
While attempting to answer a reader's reloading question, I discovered ReloadersAuction.com.
BLEAH. Huge load today, way late getting done, so late typing up the report at the library the bank was closed so I couldn't deposit my paycheck. 71 packages in 49 locations with traffic and cityfolk and revenuers scrambling for their end-of-month quotas and widespread incompetence and downtown again and several of the stops were on the way to others but I couldn't stop there because one was a timed stop right in the middle of the entire region meaning I had to rush to that one, then go thataway and make all those deliveries, then go back thisaway where I could have stopped much earlier and the last one was up in the hills on those twisty goat-path streets and I found the place okay because I can read a *&%^ing map but I got a little lost trying to get out.
Used up the reserve fuel, again. Very comforting having it along, rather upsetting to know it's empty. ARCO Regular is $3.83 now. Had enough cash left to get, like, two gallons.
And I can't find Spumoni ice cream. Oh but I will. It can't hide from me....
This security fetish is getting out of hand. They all think they're locking the bad people out, but they're only locking themselves in.
More of the usual bigotry from the anti-self-defense psychotics.
Increasingly, the only differences I can find between this once-great republic and any third-world dictatorship are superficial, like the availability of electronic devices and riot-inducing shoes.
Moar uppity in Virginia.
Another big load today, but at least it was all in my regular area. Tired....
Part of the problem was Google Maps glitching out, something about unresponsive scripts. Firefox slowed to a crawl and there was lots of HDD access. Maybe it's a Linux and/or Firefox compatibility issue. Google is evil anyway, switched to Yahoo Maps, which does the same thing I want in close enough to the same way. Which is probably also evil....
"I hear chocolate rations will be raised again next week." Seriously folks, have you been paying attention? I've talked about supermarket bread before. A tub of margerine is 97¢, a can of tuna 66¢ - I mean the house brand, not the big nationals from TV. A case of Ramen is four dollars. Increases of 25-100% in just the last year or two. "The worst thing about living in the declining era of a great civilization...is knowing that you are."
Yet another AuthorityMan hates us and wants us to die.
The "laws" are wrong and the enforcers are evil.
It's not about "safety".
Their minds don't work right.
TAKE ME WITH YOU :(
Got ammo? Srsly.
Progress in Virginia.
Operation #EFAD
Average load today. -Boss said Google Maps was glitching for everybody yesterday, and they're using Windows on the office machine, hm. Yahoo Maps works fine and is functionally identical, except, perhaps, for active GPS functions which Petze is not equipped with anyway. Even the interface is similar.
Snow/rain all morning, and wind too. As to be expected, widespread lack of competence.
"Where’s the exit for this ride? I want off." Me too. Looks like I'll be voting Gary Johnson in protest, if I vote at all, and it'll be 1992 all over again.
Self-defense is a human right. Anyone who, in any way, infringes on that right is an enemy of humanity.
Meanwhile in higher education, IT'S THE JOOOOOOS GUN OWNERS. 'How high is he willing to stack the bodies before accepting that the rights of a free people are never "trivial"?' Yeah we have historical trivia to answer that question.
Punishing everyone who didn't do it in Washington.
Nor is all rosy in Virginia.
Meanwhile in lower education, wasn't I talking about the security fetish just the other day?
And speaking of "security", it's not our safety they're worried about.
In Iowa, anti-self-defense bigots throw a tantrum. Because their constituents' lives mean nothing to them, what they care about is something else.
Unstable Freaks in Black Robes, Chapter MMMCLXXX. But they sit in judgement over us? They think we can't be trusted? They think we're sick like them?
If this were still a free country, we would be killing cops on sight as we would any rabid, destructive vermin.
An interview with Allen West. No mention of his vote to renew the PATRIOT Act at all, no mention of NDAA until the dozenth comment.
Vanderboegh contemplates the purpose of the armed citizenry, and embeds video about the Battle of Athens. The evil won't stop by itself. It will have to be stopped.
There is one and only one demographic which I feel deserves my tax money, because they have earned it, and that is our military veterans, the men and women who sleep in mud and get shot at so the rest of us don't have to. When the unConstitutional orders come down from the ivory towers, will they be obeyed? -The implications, this one almost belongs...
...In Lighter News.
Emily Miller has struck many a blow for human rights.
In the interest of fairness I must link this article about the increasingly rare not-armed-robber-in-uniform. Whose career will doubtless be destroyed now.
Operation #EFAD is tomorrow.
Precision-rifle PRAXIS. Not exactly what I have in mind for the M100 but hmm.
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