I truly enjoy how those outside the real-world of firearms happen to refer to anything that hasn't been, for example, shot into ballistic gelatin as being "anecdotal".
Time was, anecdotal meant something told to you by someone who was other than an expert in the field. If, for example, my doc informs me that he'd like me to try some new meds, it'd be genuinely silly to treat this as anecdotal. He didn't test the meds himself. Most likely never even used them personally. But, as an expert, I take for granted that the scoop is for real. I really don't know how many times, sometimes daily, that in the course of shooting or grabassing someone doesn't bring up one of my favorite old warhorses, the .357 magnum. I've said it before, and most likely will be forced to say it again, that the original loads were of the 158 grain varietal, and flat out smoked. One could expect a legitimate 1500 fps from a 5" gun, and even the old Super-Vel type rounds would end the rumpus with one or two well placed hits.
Problem is, wheelguns went the way of the Dodo for law enforcement, as spray & pray came into being with the advent of wondernines. LE has always been the best advertising agent a cartridge manufacturer can rely upon, and soft-recoiling 9 mm's found a home in civilian firearms once they were standard fodder for the local cop shop. After many under-achieving shootouts scared the living begum out of LE, a switch to the .40 took place, except of course in uber-liberal locations such as NYC. The .40 was a fine compromise between light and quick versus heavy and slow, and when the ammo manufacturers put their collective noses to the grindstone the bullet itself became as important as the caliber.
Hollowpoints ruled. Even the most dense among us could tell that a bigger hole was better than a smaller hole, and the .40's popularity grew even more. Then the .40 Magnum came along, referred to of course as the 10 mm because the word "magnum" had become a no-no in LE circles, but the kick was too much to bear and it was quickly dispensed with. Today it's 9 mm, .40, 357 SIG, and even some venerable .45 ACP's along with Gaston's brainchild the GAP. Just try and find a department using what amounts to a .357 magnum in bottomfeeder form but called the 10 mm, and lemme know how that search pans out.
Shame, too. But that brings me full-circle back to the old .357 loads, and for the umpteenth time there is not a better problem solver in sidearm form than a good revolver using a stout .357 cartridge. Not the silly SIG...it's in all probability a decent enough round but it is NO magnum...and for those who don't mind toting a wheelgun, I could not recommend anything better. Well sure I could but 41 and 44 magnums just aren't going to cut it because they simply aren't available with modern bullets.
So stop paying attention to, let's say, dentists who point to holes in gello as proof positive of a bullet's capability. You don't have to use anything you don't want to use, but you SHOULD believe that a well made revolver loaded with modern .357 magnum rounds will drop a target as quickly as just about any handgun can, and should such a platform suit you, then use it with confidence. I'd swing a cylinder shut on anything Buffalo Bore or Double Tap made, and patiently await the reintroduction of PMC's Starfire line of .357 magnum rounds that resemble Federal HST's so much that rumor has it Federal "borrowed" the design.
Big holes. Made by fast bullets. Get yourself a carbine as a big brother to the sidearm, and it'll do anything an AK round will do only better. No, you can't spray & pray. You'll simply have to learn, gasp, how to shoot.
What a concept.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Once Again, This Time With Feeling
Woman has 93-pound ovarian cyst removed
(TULSA, Okla.) January - A Kellyville woman has undergone dramatic weight loss, but not by any traditional means.
The woman had a 93-pound ovarian cyst removed through surgery earlier this month at SouthCrest Medical Plaza in Tulsa.
Taquela Hilton's doctor says the procedure was like having a C-section to deliver a 12-year-old.
Three years ago, Hilton weighed 563 pounds and was having difficulty losing weight despite exercise and dieting.
Pictured is what remained of the cyst after surgeons removed it from Ms Hilton's body/
Old Plugs Strikes Again
"I believe I was quoted accurately, but they weren't meant to be shots," Biden said of a story published in The New York Observer Wednesday. In it, he is quoted saying of Obama:
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
So Colin Powell and Condolezza Rice are...?
And the thousands upon thousands of other bright, clean, nice-looking Americans of African descent are...?
I have always been of the belief that when Biden went for those plugs they sunk them in WAY too deeply.
Algore Watch
Does Al Gore really believe in catastrophic global warming? Since Al Gore was offered the opportunity (in person) to facilitate serious debate on the underlying science of global climate change, 1 year, 3 weeks, 5 days, 19 hours, 9 minutes, and 50 seconds have elapsed.
Give 'Em That Old Time Religion...
An Indian Shi'ite Muslim boy learns to flagellate himself during an Ashura procession in the month of Moharram in Mumbai, January 30, 2007.
Mattel is missing the boat here. Flagellate Barbie would sell millions.
Times Watch
"READERS who followed The New York Times' coverage of the Duke lacrosse case probably experienced whiplash after reading the Monday Times editorial that hailed "modern DNA testing" for "steadily uncovering a dark history of justice denied."
The editorial mentioned two specific examples. The first came in Dallas, where a prisoner spent 18 years in jail, convicted of rape "based solely on faulty testimony of a witness." A DNA test that Texas prosecutors had fought to block then proved his innocence. The Times also praised North Carolina's innocence commission, which has urged police to vet non-credible witnesses more aggressively.
Powerful recommendations. Yet time and again over the past 10 months, Times reporters and columnists have acted just like the Texas prosecutors the paper's editorialists condemn.
After all, this is the same paper where sportswriters Selena Roberts and Harvey Araton published springtime columns dripping with a presumption of guilt in the Duke case. Their only evidence? The word of an accuser who had offered multiple, mutually contradictory, versions of events - just the type of person that the Times editorial board now demands be vetted more carefully.
This is also the same Times that in August published a 6,000-word front-page piece allegedly reviewing the case file. Reporter Duff Wilson insisted that - despite DNA test results from the state lab showing no match between the accuser and any lacrosse player - "There is also a body of evidence to support [D.A. Mike Nifong's] decision to take the matter to a jury."
That article went out of its way to exclude mention that a March 23 order filed by Nifong's office held, "The DNA evidence requested will immediately rule out any innocent persons." Instead, Wilson parroted the junk-science line that Nifong offered when the tests came back negative: Though "DNA results can often be helpful," the D.A. said he preferred trying "sexual assault cases the good old-fashioned way. Witnesses got on the stand and told what happened to them."
This is also the same New York Times whose editors watched silently last month, as Dr. Brian Meehan admitted that he and Nifong had entered into an agreement to intentionally withhold exculpatory evidence. His lab's tests, Meehan testified in open court, discovered that samples taken from the accuser contained the DNA of between two and four unidentified males - and nothing from any lacrosse player. This finding was never reported to the defense..."
"Dark history" says pretty much all you need to know. The NY Times is all for evidence that may exonerate an underprivileged minority member, but falls silent when the accused happens to be white and of means.Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Distaff Armament
"My wife is so recoil sensitive it is impossible to teach her on any gun over a .22 but that's nowhere close enough to sufficient for self defense..."
Whew boy but I'm going to catch flak hell for this.
My wife Lisa is quite sensitive to the noise from a firearm. Having been involved with helping women to fire such loud, smelly, oily, ugly looking weapons...maybe only a thousand, so don't take this as gospel...I figured out a thing or two.
A lot of the time it ain't just the recoil. It's the whole experience rolled into one. We decked her out with both plugs, AND muffs, and lo beholdy, the "kick" from the weapon I selected as her first handgun didn't seem half bad at all.
It was a Glock 27. No nuke rounds, mind you. Stupid yes, insane, no. Beginning from somewhat near the top down, her learning curve was greatly enhanced by, well, learning. Plinking from a mousegun is fine. Moving then to something that can really deliver the ouchies after pop-pop-popping along can be next to impossible. Expectations versus reality. Reality dictates that defensive weapons of the handgun variety should be of a relatively high caliber. I don't make the rules just report them. Forget the balderdash concerning the ineffectiveness of handguns. Such tripe was concocted by those who would have you believe that their miracle training seminars would allow one to maintain an effective level of self defense with EVEN a handgun, because they are so puny you're not going to survive without sage advice from a master.
Bater. Prepare her, truly prepare her for the shooting experience. None of this, "here baby, crank me out some a' these from my .454." Shooting cap. Eyewear. Plugs and muffs. Maybe even a glove. Surround her with the aura of being PROTECTED. Keep the target close. She can learn your world famous trick shot of hitting a kite string from two football fields away when she's ready. Compliment anything that touches paper. Stance, grip, and attitude.
And patience. Nothing pisses a woman off more than an impatient man. They spend too much time in the facilities, take too long getting dressed, will drive around for half a day looking for just the right parking spot, but that's their schtick. Live with it. The alternative is learning to switch-hit, so taking your time isn't going to be anywhere near as bad as mincing on over to the Adam & Steve side of the field.
BUT...
It's only going to happen if she is doing it for herself and not just for you. If it's to keep you happy it'll be half hearted, so get that straight between you from the get-go. You can't be around to protect her all the time. She's smart and capable and can do anything she sets HER mind to. They are NOT carbon copies of us with longer hair...Hillary not included...and softer skin. With dynamite legs, and a great..
Poor Bastard Didn't Know That Only Cops Can Shoot You In The Back..
From the 1/30/07 issue of The Boston Globe
Cabdriver charged with shooting alleged robber
Lawyer says client feared for his life
LAWRENCE -- "Bienvenido Rodriguez admits disarming the safety on his gun and firing at the man who allegedly robbed him at knifepoint, but he never meant to shoot anyone, according to a police report.
As a result of his actions, the 42-year-old taxi driver, who friends say is an immigrant success story with an even temper, was transformed from a victim to a perpetrator of a violent crime, authorities said.
Police reports said Rodriguez admitted to detectives that he fired at Herman Irene as the alleged robber ran away from him, but that he insisted he never meant to hit him.
"He only meant to scare him and did not think he hit him, since when he shot the gun off he was aiming high," the report said.
Rodriguez's lawyer said yesterday that her client feared for his life, but Lawrence Police Chief John Romero said Rodriguez went too far.
"When a guy is fleeing, he no longer poses a threat to you," and a person cannot legally use deadly force as their attacker runs away, he said.
Rodriguez, who immigrated from the Dominican Republic 22 years ago and is a naturalized citizen, was working his usual overnight shift early Sunday, driving a minivan for Liberty Car Services of Lawrence, according to court records and interviews.
Rodriguez already had one fare on board and was heading to Haverhill when he stopped to pick up Irene on Springfield Street in Lawrence.
When the van drove into the darkness of a highway overpass on Parker Street in Lawrence, Irene allegedly pulled a knife, forced Rodriguez to pull over, and robbed him of the cash stuck into the car's visor, according to court records and Rodriguez's lawyer. The other passenger witnessed the exchange and called police on his cellphone, records show.
Irene got out of the van and started running, and Rodriguez reached for the licensed .40 caliber Smith and Wesson pistol he carried, released the safety, and fired one shot into Irene's back, authorities alleged.
Rodriguez pleaded not guilty in Lawrence District Court to charges of assault with intent to murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and was ordered held on $10,000 cash bail by Judge Kevin J. Gaffney.
Irene, 36, of Lawrence, was recovering yesterday at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where he was arraigned and charged with armed robbery, according to Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett's office. Bail was set at $10,000 cash. Irene also faces attempted murder charges from a prior domestic violence case, prosecutors said.
Rodriguez's lawyer, Pamela F. Saia, said he should not have been charged. "He was the victim of a crime," she said. "Mr. Rodriguez is scared to death. . . . He was completely afraid he was going to be killed."
Poor Bienvenido is history. Even disarmed the safety. In Massatwoshits. Forget that lots of armed felons will dash for cover as they reposition themselves to do one of two things, flee, or come right back atcha. Forget that law enforcement shoots people, as well they should, in the front, back, side or upside down.
Lowly little nobody like Bienvenido is doing hard time. Him being a citizen and all, and not some coddled illegal alien that could throw himself on the mercy of the court. I'm going to do a search for his lawyer and see if I can't send her some information that might help.
Damn. She's listed as Attorney At Law Real Estate. He's a goner.
Don't Ya Just HATE When That Happens
"The gun, a "small" Derringer that holds two bullets, belongs to Doyle and wound up in Harcar's gym bag after the undersheriff borrowed it a few days earlier to go shooting at a range in Pennsylvania, according to Harcar's attorney, Gerard Hanlon. Harcar never used the weapon and had forgotten it was in the bag when the gun discharged, damaging lockers and startling the undersheriff along with the early-evening locker room crowd, Hanlon said."
Yep. It was in his gym bag and just went off. Hair trigger, I suppose. Gust of wind, and wham. Lucky thing all it held was "bullets" and not fully loaded ammunition.
And guess what the asshat shouted when it just-went-off? Okay, we'll give you a minute.
Time's up.
"My cellphone exploded!!"
Premature Discharge. There's gotta be a cure. We can send a man to the moon but we can't keep our Derringer's from going off when we least expect it.
Perhaps Ms Labia from the previous posting could give him a heaping helping of Sho Enuf.
Soccer Mom Wants To Stop Gun Violence
"Gun crimes are back on the rise in Connecticut, but new momentum -- and newly elected legislators -- offer hope of tackling strengthening gun laws, this suburban mom from Trumbull said as she brought a statewide campaign to Newhallville.
Lisa Labella (pictured as she was overheard saying "It's gotta be THIS big or no way...") was galvanized after the Columbine shootings to try to stop gun violence in schools. But, as she explained to the group ENUF (Empowering Neighborhoods United in Faith) in a Newhallville church Monday night, she soon realized she was worried about the wrong thing.
“I was worried that my kid could go to school and not come home, and while that’s something to worry about, the reality is that six to nine kids die every day from one on one incidents of gun violence, often in their communities.”
So she helped found Connecticut Against Gun Violence, whose mission is “to identify, develop, and promote passage of legislation designed to enhance gun safety.”
I'm going to pause right there for a moment to suggest that since 99.6% of legal gun owners the country over do not partipate in such criminal activity, Ms Labia, pardon, Labella, and her ick might be better off campaigning to rid the streets of the people THAT FRICKING DO.
Back to your regularly scheduled Loongram...
Labella passed out data showing how gun crimes decreased in Connecticut – and around the country – beginning around 1992 or 1993, but began to rise again in 2002. Homicides in the state committed with a firearm increased 76 percent between 2002 and 2006, according to the office of the Connecticut Medical Examiner. A color graph dramatized the racial disparity in gun-related homicides in the state: while nine percent of the population is African American and ten percent is Latino, 61 percent of homicide victims in 2006 were black, and 15 percent were Latino."
The racial disparity in gun-related homicides in the state, Ms Labia, is due in its entirety to the racial disparity of minorities killing the fuck out of one another more even than they do to non-minorities.
Case. Fricking. Closed. Leave our guns alone and go do something productive, okay, babe? Isn't there a whale in need of saving somewhere? Shh..what's that? Good grief it's a dolphin calling for help!
And please now. ENUF? How's about adding Shutup Horny Oldbroads to it, so you can get to the heart of the matter and call the thing Sho' Enuf?
Thanks to David at War On Guns
"Only Ones" Lock Up Rape Victim
TAMPA — "A 21-year-old Florida woman who sought help from police after reporting that she had been raped instead was arrested and spent two days in jail for failing to pay a three-year-old restitution order. A jail worker later refused to give her a second dose of an emergency contraceptive because of religious convictions, said Vic Moore, the college student's attorney. She was released from jail Monday only after Moore went to the media. "Shocked. Stunned. Outraged. I don't have words to describe it," Moore said Tuesday of his client's arrest and following treatment. "She is not a victim of any one person. She is a victim of the system. There's just got to be some humanity involved when it's a victim of rape." The woman is not being identified because police are investigating a sexual assault. Tampa police said Tuesday they were changing their policy to give officers more discretion on when to arrest a crime victim who has outstanding warrants. "Obviously, any policy that allows a sexual battery victim to spend a night in jail is a flawed policy," police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said. "So our city attorney is writing a new policy right now." The family of the woman is outraged. "We're incensed. Everyone is just beside themselves," her mother, 47, told the Tampa Tribune Monday, right before escorting her daughter from prison. "You've got to make sure you throw somebody in jail on a four-year-old felony warrant after they've been brutally raped?" the mother said. The pre-med student was in Tampa for Gasparilla, a pirate-themed parade that draws thousands of partygoers to the city's waterfront each year. She said she was walking alone to her car when a man pulled her behind a building and raped her, police said. The woman also did not have the opportunity to call a hotline for rape victims, her mother and attorney said. As a prisoner, she was only allowed to make collect calls, the Tribune reported. "She did not have any crisis intervention. Zero. None," her mother said. The woman's mother said she received a call the night of the arrest from a female officer who said the 21-year-old "was raped today at 2, but her name came up on a bulletin and I have to take her to jail." The mother said, "The rape investigation has come to a screeching halt." The arrest warrant was based on an unpaid sum from a 2003 auto theft and burglary case, which the woman reportedly thought had been resolved. McElroy said the arresting officer checked with a sergeant before taking the student into custody. "It appears at face value that they didn't violate policy," she said. "It's just we had a flawed policy." Sounds like something the Gestapo would have used as a defense during the Nuremberg trials, doesn't it? Put Sergeant Schultz in a police uniform and you've got the idea. A woman is raped, and the jackbooted thugs can't cut her any slack because they are sub-human cretins, incapable of making a decision on their own to begin with, and hollow human beings undeserving of a badge.
Once More Into The Cup
PEQUANNOCK, N.J. — Teens who drink alcohol could be caught three days later under a high school's new testing policy for students. The test, which will be given randomly to students at Pequannock Township High School, can detect whether alcohol was consumed up to 80 hours earlier. The legal drinking age in the United States is 21. Other districts already use the test. Middletown began using it last spring for students suspected of using drugs and alcohol. This month, the district expanded it to include a random pool of about 1,800 students. Pequannock Superintendent Larrie Reynolds said the policy approved last week should be a deterrent to students who feel peer pressure to drink. Under the program, students who test positive will not be kicked off teams or barred from extracurricular activities, Reynolds said. Instead, they will receive counseling — and their parents will be notified..." Counseling? MY tax dollars are being used so that the government may COUNCIL a kid who had a beer? Schools are for teaching. Not for "counseling" any bloody thing. And what about families in which the consumption of small amounts of alcohol is part of their heritage? I was sipping watered-down wine at the age of 12...never even close to intoxication...and what a youngster does AT FRICKING HOME should be no one elses business, and certainly NOT the governments. Talk about an invasion of privacy. Don't dare have a peek at which how-to-blow-up-an-airliner book some raghead is borrowing from his local library, but CAN demand that children line up for urine analysis. Lord but I despise these people.
Hillary Rodham Kvetch
"Hillary Clinton said over the weekend that "I really resent" the fact American troops may be tied up in Iraq in January 2009 - when she hopes to be president of the United States.
"I am going to level with you," she said. "The president has said this is going to be left to his successor. I think it is the height of irresponsibility, and I really resent it."
That's actually an interesting, even thought-provoking, formulation. It's rare to hear questions about difficult policies discussed in terms of personal resentments, but perhaps this is one of the areas where Hillary Clinton will blaze a new presidential trail.
Imagine, for example, that President Bush had given a speech a few days after 9/11 declaring he really resented the fact that Bill Clinton didn't kill Osama bin Laden before Bush became president.
Or that President Bill Clinton, in the wake of the slaughter of 18 American servicemen in Somalia in 1993, informed Americans about his real resentment of George Bush the Elder, who sent those servicemen into Somalia at the tail end of his administration.
Really Resenting doesn't have to begin and end with foreign policy and military matters. President George Bush the Elder could have made public his profound resentment at the consequences of the Reagan tax-reform bill on the real-estate market, whose crumbling value in the late 1980s led to the recession that helped do Bush the Elder in.
For that matter, Ronald Reagan could have spent 1982 expressing resentment at the recession caused by the necessity of choking off the stagflation of the Carter years. And on it goes..."
Many of us really resent this hagwife's bitching and moaning about how hard it is running the free world, and really now, doesn't this go the heart of the matter?
ALL they do is complain. It's too hot, too cold, too dangerous, too-too. Can't they just get elected and pay attention to all those poor people who need dental work?
Brace yourself, because the feminization of America continues. Unabated. Unabashed.War? Please. We can sit down over a nice latte and hash things out. Then get on with the real business of punishing those who do not believe in affirmative action.
Brrrrrrrrr
27 degrees at 6: 35 AM, with a projected high of 56. Average temps for this date are 43 to 67, and we all cannot wait for that there global warming to finally kick in.
Come on, Al.
Monday, January 29, 2007
Blood Running In The Streets!
By now you may have heard of the nonsensical meanderings of the deranged minds referring to themselves as journalists.
They are loudly proclaiming that an infintesimal amount of Florda concealed weapon permit holders have been wanted for, or accused of crimes. But lets stop for a moment so that I may present the following:
No justification for a license is required; "self-defense" is sufficient.*
Then there's this from Codrea's War on Guns:
Hundreds of criminals were able to obtain concealed weapons permits in Florida because of loopholes, errors and miscommunication, a newspaper reported Sunday.The "loophole"?
You have to go to the original hysterical article this one is based on to find it.
None of the people the media is shrieking about are convicted felons.
It doesn't matter if they were accused.
It doesn't matter if they were arrested, or how many times.
It doesn't matter if they were charged.
If they have not been convicted, even if a judge elected to "withhold" conviction based on a plea arrangement, you cannot then turn around and withhold their rights. These "authorized journalists" are bewailing nothing less than our inability to punish people who have not been legally proven guilty of felonies. And until that happens, regardless of circumstances, regardless of pleas, our system affords them a presumption of innocence, and places the burden on the state to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
If the government is not doing it's job, that's the part of the system you need to fix.
So the ABC headline "Fla. Gives Gun Permits to Felons" is a lie. That's right, a lie. Pleading guilty to a felony does not make you a felon. Being convicted of one does.
Even the original report admits, albeit it is buried deep in the story:
Convicted felons cannot get gun licenses under state and federal law.No duh. Anybody starting to feel a bit...manipulated here?
And you'll notice in all the wailing and teeth-gnashing there are no claims of any resulting increase in homicides."
Yep. First off, no one really knows how many CWP's are active in Florida. Of the million and a half licenses issued, some holders have died, some moved away, some that moved away came back and were re-issued licenses after submitting a change of address to reflect their new location, etc, etc.
But to brass tacks. Of those million and a half, HUNDREDS of CWP holders may or may not have committed crimes. Think about that for a moment. What are the chances of profiling one and a half million people, checking back on them TWO decades later, and finding that only a mere "hundreds" had been charged with a crime? Sort of makes a damned fine case for the vast majority of licensees, doesn't it?
1996 was a banner year, though. 5 of the over 300,000 permit holders WERE convicted of a high misdemeanor, or felony.
But lets not continue to dwell on how upstanding these people have been. No, we should focus instead upon the lying journalists who believe that they've found a chink in our armor.
And let me be the first to tell you, it isn't pretty down here. Talk radio is overflowing with angry retorts to the article in question, and the single biggest thing that may come out of this free-for-all is the fact that by the time it's blown over, a great many of us will have been drawn closer together as we circle the wagons.
*So what about their hilarious statement that "self-defense is no justification for obtaining a permit."?
Seems like a damned fine justification, doesn't it????
War on Guns is a blog you should be checking in with every day.
Kentucky Derby Winner Barbaro Euthanized
Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro was euthanized Monday in Kennett Square, Pa., after an eight-month battle to regain his health captured the hearts of America in a way that hasn't been seen in the racing world since Seabiscuit and Secretariat. "His memory will live forever," Alex Waldrop, CEO of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, said in a statement to FOXNews.com. "America’s compassion and love for Barbaro speak to the incredible bond that people share with thoroughbreds and our sport." Oh good grief. They breed these creatures to be stick-legged, short-lived playthings to amuse the masses, then act like they had nothing to do with the animals injury. Hey. Yeah you, Alex and all the Alex-idiots within earshot. Don't race the damn things if you don't like seeing them suffer to the point they need to be destroyed. I doubt the horse showed up one day with a brokendown suitcase and a heartbreaking story of how he'd like to be a Kentucky Derby winner.
Damn Your Eyes, AlGore
This global warming is getting on my nerves. It's 32 degrees at 7 AM here, and that's not too far off the 26 that NYC is awakening to. Even Frostproof Florida is scraping off the ice and just try finding rock salt in the Sunshine State. Last time it was this cold was back in 1940, but they were too stupid to realize that we were hurtling towards our doom so everyone bundled up and worried about some new ice age because Al wasn't even born yet and couldn't warn them. The warmest January 29th was in 1950. 85 degrees. But again, no loons to sound the alarm so folks broke out the suntan oil and headed for the beaches.
Worst part about it?
It's too damned cold to go shooting. The locals are shivering and won't even hear of breaking out the machine parts that punch holes in cellulose.
Sorry. Hadda mail some stuff and am still in fool-the-post-office mode.
Middle East Woes...
"Thanks to abysmal policy errors (many pre-dating the current administration), we've caught ourselves between two irreconcilable sides - Sunni and Shia Muslims - whose enmity dates back 13 centuries. And we're now taking fire from every direction.
Dreaming that all Iraqis could get along, we alienated potential friends and empowered deadly enemies. Short of Mongol-quality savagery, the traditional way to win in the Middle East has been to select an ally and stick with him - while avoiding the folly of trying to play honest broker."
Yes, the real world has been agonizing over what to do with old Mo's kids for the past 1300 years, but the real problem today lies in the irrefutable fact that, unlike our crusading forebears, our present day friends and neighbors refuse to believe that we are at war with a bloodthirsty cult that wants nothing less than our death or enslavement.
In many ways, they've got us right where they want us. Fat, prosperous and clueless. If you've any doubt of that, just listen to what the new democrat Congress has been spewing. We've the strength to end it all anytime we please, but our swords have beaten into timeshares.
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Equal Except When Not
Markie Mark on set. He's a convicted felon. The rifle is genuine.
Tune in to Codrea's War on Guns for the skinny, as it has to do with the Wayne Fincher story.
And by the way:
"I believe Charlton Heston is America's best villain because he loves guns so much. Maybe he should get the award for being president of the National Rifle Association."--Mark Wahlberg, MTV Movie Awards
DitchThe Belts But Keep The Gat
"Is it in your opinion paranoid to feel like somethings is missing when your not carrying a gun with you?"
This would be an interesting discussion were a medical professional to be part of it, but here's my take, sans the headshrinker.
Most of the men I know who carry, drive without using seat belts. Some of them, don't awaken in the middle of the night to pad into the bathroom without first arming themselves, and this is far from an exaggeration.
So then, it certainly isn't the fear of accidental death or injury that creates the naked-and-alone tremors experienced by those who find the need to be armed around the clock. Granted, being surrounded by tons of metal can and obviously does lend an air of invincibility, particularly to those who have not yet reached their majority, but walking down a darkened alley minus the heat can be daunting.
The longwinded response, is yes. I do believe some become clinically paranoid when disarmed. Upon returning from my first tour in SE Asia I was shaken to the point of extreme discomfiture (scared shitless) just by walking out the front door without a gun. Since I know what it feels like firsthand, I can see it in others and it ain't pretty.
Caution is a virtue. But like anything under heaven can be taken to the extreme.
Wild Survival
| Would you survive in the wild? Your Result: Yesiree!.... You could live in the wild if you wanted to! You know what to eat, do, and stay away from! You could get shelter, food, water fast and easy-and the right treatments to injuries, snake bites etc...You know the outdoors like the back of your hand!! | |
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| Maybe........ | |
| Most likely you'll survive.... | |
| Wouldn't last 2 minutes!..... | |
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The red-line doesn't show up when you copy the code and paste, but mine was missing the last smidgeon of the bar so I guess I answered something wrong. OR, my age is inconsistent with survival. I do feel that my chances for making it through would be greatly enhanced were I to be stranded with at least one other person. Preferably, one with some meat on his bones.
Thankee sai to Pat from Born again Redneck, or whatever it is he's calling his blog this hour.
Packing Heat In The Sub-Tropics
The population of Florida is an estimated 18,000,000 as of January 1st. The concealed carry goal is for 1 out of every 20 ADULT residents, so bear that in mind as you look at the chart which features all people, be they minors or enfeebled seniors. The total number of Concealed Weapon Permits is almost impossible to determine, as Florida has different subsections that are not included in the regular CWP figures. Private Investigators have their own version of the CWP, southern Florida in particular is bursting at the seams with them, and they would not show up on any such chart. It has been estimated that approximately 3.8% of the total population is packing one way or the other.
3 million seniors over the age of 65
4 million children under 18
Permanently disenfranchised felons: 850,000
Adults and minors categorized as requiring assisted living: 82,000
Estimate illegal aliens, or aliens otherwise unqualified to obtain a CWP: 76,000
Therefore, 8 million Floridians are incapable of, or not likely to possess a CWP. The 684,000 permits is about 6.8% of the hardcore adult population, and I won't even get into the female side of the equation, that by all accounts carries along the lines of less than 1/10 of the male population. Suffice to say that close to 14% of qualified adult males are packing.
Now that I've bored you all to tears with the numbers, I'll end on the note that we'd like it to be 20%, or for you liberals who've mistakenly stumbled in and are too horrified to do the math, 1 out of every 5 men. Since 2 out of 5 are registered democrats we'll never pitch a shutout, and the remaining 1 out of every 5 are minorities who by all nationwide statistics have or will soon have domestic violence cases pending, we'll have to settle for 20% now won't we.
Just kidding about the domestic violence. Women do it too, ya know.
The Simpsons Movie
Click the link before Fox declares war and demands that the images be removed.
I once liked The Simpsons; before it was dumbed down to todays drivel. Here's hoping the movie will resurrect some of the old panache.
UK Watch: Countdown To Eurabia
| Bolton bans Holocaust Day | |
The council is to replace it with a Genocide Memorial Day in June. This is in line with the policy of the Muslim Council of Britain, which continues to boycott HMD and is asking for a Genocide Day, which will also mark "the ongoing genocide and human rights abuses of Palestinians" by Israelis. The council decision was made in consultation with the town's Interfaith Council. But Rabbi Joseph Lever of United Synagogue who has participated in the Bolton event for around three years was not consulted on the decision. He said: "I mourn the fact that the Holocaust Memorial Day event will not take place in Bolton this year." Louis Rapaport, president of the Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester, was equally disappointed that the Jewish community was not consulted. He said: "Bolton, alone of all the local authorities in our area, is not having an HMD event which is a government recommendation." He added: "There may not be many Jews in Bolton but the day is supposed to have an educational message to the whole community. "I can't help feeling the decision was influenced by Bolton's large Muslim community." Holocaust educator David Arnold said: "It is more than unfortunate that Bolton has seen fit to trivialise the remembrance of the Shoah." Mr Arnold regretted the intrusion of "politics" into the issue. He said: "It is entirely inappropriate and stems from a failure to understand the issues." |
We Get Letters
"...No politics here, just a Marine
with a bird's eye view's opinions:"
1) The M-16 rifle : Thumbs down. Chronic jamming problems with the talcum
powder like sand over there. The sand is everywhere. Jordan says you feel
filthy 2 minutes after coming out of the shower. The M-4 carbine version is
more popular because it's lighter and shorter, but it has jamming problems
also. They like the ability to mount the various optical gunsights and
weapons lights on the picattiny rails, but the weapon itself is not great in
a desert environment. They all hate the 5.56mm (.223) round. Poor
penetration on the cinderblock structure common over there and even torso
hits cant be reliably counted on to put the enemy down. Fun fact: Random
autopsies on dead insurgents shows a high level of opiate use.
2) The M243 SAW (squad assault weapon): .223 cal. Drum fed light machine
gun. Big thumbs down. Universally considered a piece of shit. Chronic
jamming problems, most of which require partial disassembly. (that's fun in
the middle of a firefight).
3) The M9 Beretta 9mm: Mixed bag. Good gun, performs well in desert
environment; but they all hate the 9mm cartridge. The use of handguns for
self-defense is actually fairly common. Same old story on the 9mm: Bad guys
hit multiple times and still in the fight.
4) Mossberg 12ga. Military shotgun: Works well, used frequently for clearing
houses to good effect.
5) The M240 Machine Gun: 7.62 Nato (.308) cal. belt fed machine gun,
developed to replace the old M-60 (what a beautiful weapon that was!!).
Thumbs up. Accurate, reliable, and the 7.62 round puts 'em down. Originally
developed as a vehicle mounted weapon, more and more are being dismounted
and taken into the field by infantry. The 7.62 round chews up the structure
over there.
6) The M2 .50 cal heavy machine gun: Thumbs way, way up. "Ma deuce" is still
worth her considerable weight in gold. The ultimate fight stopper, puts
their dicks in the dirt every time. The most coveted weapon in-theater.
7) The .45 pistol: Thumbs up. Still the best pistol round out there.
Everybody authorized to carry a sidearm is trying to get their hands on one.
With few exceptions, can reliably be expected to put 'em down with a torso
hit. The special ops guys (who are doing most of the pistol work) use the HK
military model and supposedly love it. The old government model 45's are
being re-issued en masse.
8) The M-14: Thumbs up. They are being re-issued in bulk, mostly in a
modified version to special ops guys. Modifications include lightweight
Kevlar stocks and low power red dot or ACOG sights. Very reliable in the
sandy environment, and they love the 7.62 round.
Clicking the headline link will bring you to the rest.
Saturday, January 27, 2007
More Of The High & Mighty As They Herd The Eloi...
Westchester wants police to license guns
Westchester's state representatives say they'll push for a special law that would put county police in charge of pistol license applications and require handgun owners to renew their license every five years.
The move, which would eliminate the county clerk and courts from the process, is part of County Executive Andrew Spano's 2007 state legislation wish list. The complete legislative package is being reviewed by the county Board of Legislators and will most likely be forwarded to Albany next month.
Under the proposal, county police would be responsible for all steps of the pistol licensing process, including record keeping, background checks, applicant interviews and ultimately deciding on whether to grant the license. Currently, applications are made to the county clerk, who sends it to county police. Police conduct background checks and interviews and forward a report and recommendation to a county judge for final action.
Westchester's proposal is similar to what is already in place in New York City and Suffolk and Nassau counties. Although handgun owners in Westchester must recertify their permit every five years, license-holders in Nassau and Suffolk are required to renew their licenses by reapplying every five years. New York City license holders must renew every three years.
Assemblyman Richard Brodsky said last month that he would support Spano's proposal and introduce the legislation in the assembly.
State Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer said that she would "carry the bill in the Senate."
"I think it's always beneficial when we can consolidate government processes," she said. "Right now it's pretty convoluted for gun licenses, with clerks, police and judges all involved. It's a pretty inefficient way to run government."
Also against the county proposal is state Supreme Court Justice J. Emmett Murphy, who described it as an "answer in search of a problem." "You have the frustrating problem of illegal guns and gun violence, and then you have legal permit holders - homeowners, business owners, responsible people. Virtually none of them commit crimes," he said, "but this administration wants to subject them to silly hurdles and make life difficult for them. I have a problem with that.''
The Gestapo Is Alive And Well
And living in Watertown, NY.
"I had my interview with a detective yesterday for my pistol permit. This is coming after 6 months of waiting. I think they wait exactly 6 months because thats the limit the law in NYS states they have lol. Well going through this interview has helped me make a very important life decision. As soon as the little lady is done with nursing school, I'm marrying her up and getting the hell out of this state! I cannot stand being treated like a criminal because I want to own a handgun! This detective grilled me for 45 minutes about why I wanted a pistol, and why I thought my neighborhood was bad enough to need personal protection. He asked me if I was planning on invading the nearby Army base, because I happen to collect military firearms. He asked me if I planned on taking my pistol on an ambulance run and assisting in a suicide, because I am a volunteer firefighter and emt. These things sickened me!
Now I can understand that he was trying to get under my skin and see if he could goad a bad reaction to me, but I knew it was going to be bad when the first thing he said to me when I sat down was, "My job here is to deny your permit application, son." "If I feel that you're not old enough for a pistol than I'll deny it, period."
He asked me if I planned on carrying my pistol. I told him that I had thought about it, and might on occasion. He told me that even though the law says its legal, that it might not be a good idea. He said if himself or another cop saw me walking through a mall with a pistol on my hip, that he would bust me on the spot, permit or no permit.
What bugged me the most was the little speech he left me with. He said, and I quote, "I know the 2nd Amendment says you have the right to keep and bear arms, but thats just not the way we do things around here."
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At this point, it would be advisable to contact an attorney, but in NY State that can be expensive, and result in a litany of harassment. The police DO NOT have to follow the law. They CAN, and WILL stop, detain, and harass you for no legal reason. Judges in these locales will toss out cases that have to do with law enforcement badgering gun owners, and all one need do is remember what happened in New Orleans. The local law and order system had nothing to say about those who had their Constitutional rights taken from them, and indeed even aided and abetted the criminals masquerading as police.
I've lived in towns like this, all across America. Call the local district attorney and they'll respond that, well, we do give the cops a lot of leeway, but it's for the good of everyone. Scrape together 10 or 15 thousand dollars then try to find a lawyer to help in the matter. That, and a lot of luck just MIGHT make a difference but don't count on winning anything anytime soon. What eventually happens, is that all of the cecent, hardworking people begin moving from these socialist outposts, until all that's left are those perfectly content with living off the dole and doing AS THEY ARE TOLD.
New York began as a cradle of Democracy. It, along with most of our other large city's, have for all intents and purpose left America to form their own socialist paradise.
The new revolution is just around the corner.
Bloody Booger
I really don't know how many times I have to change this before Booger gets it right.
My email address is: usmcgunny68 at aol.com
The Fits address remains operative, but because of the hassle in connecting to AOL I rarely look at that old thing. To all who've sent mail to the Fits addy, accept my apologies.
Transforming Hillary
The vaulting ambition of America's Lady Macbeth
Hillary Clinton’s shameless political reconstructive surgery
"Fifteen years ago there was once a principled, if somewhat rebarbative and unelectable politician called Hillary Rodham Clinton. A woman who aggressively preached abortion on demand and the right of children to sue their own parents, a committed believer in the power of government who tried to create a healthcare system of such bureaucratic complexity it would have made the Soviets blush; a militant feminist who scorned mothers who take time out from work to rear their children as “women who stay home and bake cookies”.
Today we have a different Hillary Rodham Clinton, all soft focus and expensively coiffed, exuding moderation and tolerance.
To grasp the scale of the transfiguration, it is necessary only to consider the very moment it began. The turning point in her political fortunes was the day her husband soiled his office and a certain blue dress. In that Monica Lewinsky moment, all the public outrage and contempt for the sheer tawdriness of it all was brilliantly rerouted and channelled to the direct benefit of Mrs Clinton, who immediately began a campaign for the Senate.
And so you had this irony, a woman who had carved out for herself a role as an icon of the feminist movement, launching her own political career, riding a wave of public sympathy over the fact that she had been treated horridly by her husband.
After that unsurpassed exercise in cynicism, nothing could be too expedient. Her first Senate campaign was one long exercise in political reconstructive surgery. It went from the cosmetic — the sudden discovery of her Jewish ancestry, useful in New York, especially when you’ve established a reputation as a friend of Palestinians— to the radical: her sudden message of tolerance for people who opposed abortion, gay marriage, gun control and everything else she had stood for.
Once in the Senate she published an absurd autobiography in which every single paragraph had been scrubbed clean of honest reflection to fit the campaign template. As a lawmaker she is remembered mostly, when confronted with a President who enjoyed 75 per cent approval ratings, for her infamous decision to support the Iraq war in October 2002. This one-time anti-war protester recast herself as a latter-day Boadicea, even castigating President Bush for not taking a tough enough line with the Iranians over their nuclear programme.
Now, you might say, hold on. Aren’t all politicians veined with an opportunistic streak? Why is she any different? The difference is that Mrs Clinton has raised that opportunism to an animating philosophy, a P. T. Barnum approach to the political marketplace.
All politicians, sadly, lie. We can often forgive the lies as the necessary price paid to win popularity for a noble cause. But the Clinton candidacy is a Grand Deceit, an entirely artificial construct built around a person who, stripped bare of the cynicism, manipulation and calculation, is nothing more than an enormous, overpowering and rather terrifying ego."
Three words; She's a lawyer.
Duh.
"Letter To A Christian Nation"
a book review by Kenneth W. Krause
"Reason is to morality what design is to construction, and monotheism is a collective intellectual disaster that necessarily implies an international moral emergency. So says Sam Harris in his predictably candid, derisive and hyper-focused Letter to a Christian Nation, as he lectures an audience of agitated religionists who protested similar and, in some instances, identical scolds dispensed through his first book, The End of Faith.
Faith, by some accounts, is conviction to a belief despite facts and reason. When overwhelming majorities accept lesser standards of intellectual integrity, faith becomes institutionalized and potentially dangerous. Faith in omnipotence only exacerbates the problem. Christianity and Islam, especially, because they define in- and out-groups in terms of perpetual rewards and punishments, are inherently dangerous. Monotheists define morality according to no objective standard outside the Bible. Instead, religious affiliation necessarily depends upon the foundational texts that attempt in vain to identify both ethical and non-ethical behavior. Hence, for the faithful, any conceivable act may be defined as moral so long as the relevant god’s text can be interpreted to support it. Humans may piously slaughter other humans in any number, in any imaginable way, simply because their faith allows them to trust in an omnipotent and omni-benevolent creator who desires or all too regularly demands that they do so.
The Christian faithful, Harris contends, have inherited some of the most unethical standards imaginable. Consistent with Proverbs, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Exodus, Mark and Matthew, pious parents are obliged to thrash or kill their disobedient children. The Abrahamic texts insist that followers stone not only the adulterer, but also those who labor on the Sabbath. Although some Christians will argue that New Testament morals have superseded those of the Old, Harris counters that, according to the former, Jesus instructed his followers to remain true to the ancient laws. The Church incinerated heretics for more than 500 years as it cited allegedly validating chapter and verse. Augustine supposed that dissenters should be tortured; Aquinas directed that they be murdered. Both Luther and Calvin encouraged the slaughter of innocent apostates and Jews. In no Christian text was Jesus said to have objected to slavery; in many was the practice condoned.
The first four of the Ten Commandments, Harris observes, had nothing to do with morality. The rest clearly did, but were hardly original. Virtually every culture edified similar principles in its annals, laws, and myths. Regardless, morality predates recorded history and, perhaps, humanity itself. Our closest primate relatives demonstrate some degree of kin altruism and broader social concern. The point, of course, is that religious ethics represent only one phase of our moral evolution, a phase that humanity can and must transcend.
Hopelessly antiquated religions have grown increasingly counterproductive as sources of moral guidance. Christians delight in imagining themselves supremely ethical in their opposition to embryonic stem cell research and abortion. But neither stem cell use nor legal abortions harm anything capable of either experiencing loss or inspiring a reasonable sense of loss in others. Insisting that human “souls” can inhabit the microscopic recesses of a Petri dish is not a moral argument. Rather, it is the imposition of both intellectual and moral primitivism.
Indeed, religious ethics often seem impervious to empathy. Many Christian conservatives oppose vaccination for the human papillomavirus, now the most common sexually transmitted disease in America, largely because they consider HPV an obstacle to premarital sex. The Vatican contests condom use even to thwart the spread of HIV. Christopher Hitchens summarized the crisis well when he pointed out that Mother Teresa “was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God.” Teresa might have performed admirable deeds for humanity as an individual, but it should be clear that she brought such goodness despite, rather than because of, her religion. That so much suffering can be directly attributed to religion, Harris concludes, should inform us that honest and thorough criticism of religious faith is both our intellectual and our moral responsibility.
To religious moderates, Harris offers neither sanctuary nor convenient alliance. Temperance and tolerance are not solutions to this deadly predicament. To the contrary, religious liberalism’s demand for respect only lends ostensible though certainly not actual credibility to religious dogma and fanaticism. Moderates simply cannot continue to have it both ways, the author demands. Either human beings created the Bible, or they did not. Either Christ was a man, or he was not. If so, the fundamental and necessary tenets of Christianity are and have always been false. At some point, Harris persists, one side will win and the other will lose.
Speaking truth to both religious and secular power, however redundantly, has become Sam Harris’s claim to fame, perhaps even his raison d’être. Although the underlying problem is a bit more complex than the author appears to recognize, his assessment of faith’s threat to human survival is sound. Arguably, much of the developed world seems well on its way to begetting the end of faith, or, more precisely, faith of the licensed, monotheistic variety. In America, of course, the crisis is more severe; a mere letter to a Christian nation will never suffice. But if such letters are read and rejoined by the right Christians, perhaps history might prove them to have been a very good start indeed."
Yes. The ancients were a bloodthirsty lot. Modern civilization has exorcised such cravings, and don't point to islam because it is neither modern, nor a civilization. We've managed to hoist ourselves up quite nicely, but the remembrance of atrocities committed in the name of religion is important to the understanding of the current religious wars that have gripped the world. The problem that modern liberals have, is that they cannot condemn islam alone because that would appear too judgemental to single out one of the world's many religions, so to make what IS a good point they lump all worshippers together.
Christianity still condones some horrible things. Condoms should be on the hit-parade rather than the hit-list, and those who do favor the old testament are either liars or cherry-picking dolts not to understand that the Jewish deity, as portrayed by numerous references to among other things, mass murder and slavery, was and/or is a monster of legendary proportions. But we also inherited the remnants of a prehensile tail, but that does not mean we remain stuck in the treetops.
Times were tough, and people had to be even tougher to cobble forth a society that provided some semblance of security and prosperity. Hindsight is valuable but doesn't begin to take into account the fact that many men of good will did many bad things for reasons we cannot this day fathom, but should not dismiss out of hand because we are so very sheltered and distanced from the jungle.
Instead of complimenting modern Judaism and Christianity for shedding the image of the beast, Sam Harris...and his reviewer Kenneth Krause...sing the tired song of woe that continues to search for its lyrics in the distant past. Most of us are damned fine creatures who've proved worthy of a modicum of appreciation, and if not praise then gratitude.
Islam IS scary as all hell. Focusing upon the true enemy might be a wise move. And by the way, killing something isn't respectable simply because the victim may or may not feel any pain. It's a hoot when liberals bemoan the loss of human life while at the same time worshipping at the altar of abortion as birth control.
Click here for the short list of bible goings-on that bother those who do worry about such things. And for the umpteenth time I remind them that the people of the time were doing the best they could with the information they had. Yes, modern science welcomes change but it wasn't always so.
Off To Simulate The 2-Way-Range
I've been hearing about certain munitions that deserve a look. The first is a 357 SIG, 60 grainer that is advertised to crank 2400 fps from a 4" barrel, the second an 80 grain 45 ACP that does better than 2300 from a 5". Both are hollowpoints by the way. This means no weeping or whining that they can be referred to as COP KILLER BULLETS, as if cops have a better reason to exist than the rest of us. HP's are designed to flatten not punch through, and the 45 intrigues me the most. The potential problem with so light a weight for the calibers in question, particularly the 45, is the possibility of deflecting off of bone or even a strategically placed Zippo. The other problem is the fact that MOST military types will not bother to toss even a wayward glance at reports of bullets hitting paper targets. There is a certain online dentist who drives the "warriors" stark raving mad with his blatent nonsense concerning terminal ballistics, but I'm a little forgiving mainly because I must be.
I no longer have living targets to report upon. Any information I receive or pass along FROM those who have practiced long and hard in the present day 2-way-ranges around the world must be considered anecdotal, even though the information is derived from experts in the field.
Your MD provides a diagnosis, and this is not anecdotal. A long range sniper says what works and what doesn't and this is not anecdotal. Coming from me, secondhand, it is. Regardless of the vagaries of the internet, we ALL decide to whom our trust is given. I do not sell ammunitions, not consort with those that do. My single devotion is to generate meaningful data from sources considered to be genuine. I believe my own eyes, and the work of those I value as friends.
Regardless. I'm out to defile paper and plastic. What called these cartridges to my attention was reports of their efficiency in close quarter combat and I do wish to get a feel for them before passing certain information along. If I consider them to be worthless for "civilian" use I'll simply forget it and move on. No, I will not have killed with them, and any chatterboxing is suspect and worth what you paid to see it.
Oh, and perhaps if we all promise not to do backyard root-canals, that dentist will stop telling us all about the munitions necessary to dispatch a foe.
Friday, January 26, 2007
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When You Just GOTTA Have A Heavyweight
From a Glock 22 expect a tad over 1100 fps, and if that's your baddest bottomfeeder, then this might be just the ticket for persuading woodland creatures to feast elsewhere.
Double-Tap makes them, and even in a G-27 they scamper close to 1000 fps.
By the way, 10 mm loads from Remington and Winchester are slower than the Double-Tap .40's. Bear that in mind if you are contemplating a G-20 or the like. It's load your own, or use a boutique manufacturer to get the most out of the 10.
Moving on over to wheel guns...
In the lower 48, I've heard that a 4" GP-100 with 200's clocking 1300 fps is fine and dandy, but venturing into BIG DAMNED BEAR country means a rifle. A max-loaded 44 mag, 454 Casull, or the grandaddy of them all, the 500 magnum, is a decent enough sidearm when the long one is not handy.
Reactions To The State Of The Union...
And even terrorists have their say.
By MELISSA EDDY, Associated Press Writer Wed Jan 24, 3:23 PM
"...The comments also hit a nerve in Lebanon, where lawmaker Nawar Saheli told AP Television News that Bush should listen to the Lebanese people. "They do not want the U.S. government to interfere in the Lebanese internal affairs," he said."Sorry, Melissa. But Nawar Saheli is NOT a Lebanese lawmaker. He works for hezzbollah, and hezzbollah has resigned from the Lebanese government. Perhaps you didn't get the same memo as everyone else in the known fucking world did, or you may have been referring to his previous job which was in landscaping, and might have confused LAWNMAKER with LAWMAKER.
Not that ANY rational human being of good will would pay heed to ANY story coming from the ASSociated Press, but this one is even lamer than usual.
Coals To Newcastle...
Or dead dino droppings, for that matter...
"...The fact is that the country is over 70% self-sufficient when we consider total energy (coal, nuclear, hydro, renewables, gas, etc). Although much of that dependence relates to oil, the U.S. does not import nearly as much from the Middle East as some suggest. As energy expert Daniel Yergin recently pointed out in the Wall Street Journal, “[s]ome 81% of oil imports do not come from that region. Thus, only 19% of imports -- and 12% of total petroleum consumption -- originates in the Middle East.” It may surprise many readers that the U.S. imports most of its oil not from Arab Sheiks but from our friends in Canada."
Which is why OPEC, despite dearly wishing to strangle us via low production quotas, understands the most basic rule of remaining in business. If a competitor is selling something cheaper, or makes his product more readily available, HE gets the business. And the sheiks are greedy little buggers, billionaires who want to be multi-billionaires. But all of this would be moot were the democrats anything remotely resembling patriotic Americans. We've plenty of energy resources, but the loons WANT us barefoot-and-pregnant because that's how they amass a contituency. Read all of what Senator Inhofe has to say.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Take That, Copper...
"Whose looked at the all-copper bullets like Corbon has..."
Lots of people love them. Many of the one's that love them, are selling them. The rest are the one's who believe the one's that are selling them.
But seriously, you'd be hard pressed to find any of the aficionado's bragging about expansion, because there's to date not much to brag about. Magtech has been making copper bullets for a time, and when fired from a G-23, in .40 caliber but of course, mushroom to the tune of .66". PMC Starfire and/or Federal HST's will do .8" when impacting the same medium. Or extra-large, for that matter. They all remain pricey and its only going to get worse as the ammo makers lie, strike that, report upon the rising cost of metals.
The Cor-Bon hook has been about penetration, penetration, then more penetration. This would seem to imply that if penetration is your goal you should look into them.
Suck It In
But when I slounge back with a cigar that has hit the glee button I don't like moving for a while. I don't say, "good cigar", because I haven't a clue as to what good is. I've belonged to cigar clubs,
smoked Havanas until I had to stop or puke, and really do like some of the Dominican variations but I've tried GOOD ones that sucked and POOR ones that I couldn't get enough of.
So the OLD MAN would wait, not patiently, he didn't give good patient, until I was done frenching a stogey, and it was always just a matter of time before he'd make mention.
"You inhale. Why do you inhale a cigar?"
I'd ALWAYS answer the same way because he knew I inhaled and I knew, but let's not get into that again.
"What."
No question mark at the end. No raised or lowered eyebrows to lend emphasis to my misunderstanding of a simple interrogatory. I inhaled. I inhale everything. Since my first shot at those bubble-gum cigars I even inhaled them before chewing. But he knew that if I suddenly clicked out of ENJOYMENT MODE, the chances were good that I'd heat some pots and pans without ado most further.
"What do you mean ,what? You inhale."
"I inhale."
"You're not suppossed to inhale cigars. How can you enjoy a cigar with all that smoke in your lungs?"
"Look at it this way, it filters the smoke from the room so you don't have to breathe it too."
"That's dumber than inhaling..."
And so it would go. Now I'm sitting here enjoying (inhaling) a Joya Del Rey Robusto that I got so dirt cheap I'm ashamed of myself. Roman Catholic guilt never diminishes even a tad of a scintilla, and I know that there are starving cigar smokers in China I should be sending these to but I won't.
So with that in mind, here's this weeks CIGAR RECOMMENDATION.
Joya Del Rey Robusto (4 3/4 X 50). Some fool of a friend ordered them and was disappointed because he thought he had purchased a much longer cigar, and didn't even think to light one up. Cool ass glass tubes, too. Great for saving dimes. If your local tobacconist doesn't stock them he can order them. Failing that, Google is your friend.
Try some and don't be afraid to inhale. They don't do so in the movies because it's Scene 3, Take 497, and nobody can go through that and still inhale.
But of course a Churchill variant is fine, too.
The Bloomberg Gun Give-Away
MIDLOTHIAN, Va. - "Riled-up rednecks are snapping up tickets to a gun raffle named after Mayor Bloomberg, already trip.ling business at one dealer here.
"He's an idiot," said Richard Hill, manager of Bob Moates Sport Shop, where a hand-scrawled sign on the counter tells customers to "Ask about the Bloomberg Gun GiveAway."
A pro-gun group is sponsoring the contest at three stores in Virginia as payback for the mayor's federal lawsuits against four dealers in the state that Bloomberg says are illegally peddling weapons that end up in the hands of New York criminals.
Bloomberg has sued 23 other out-of-state dealers.
"Mr. Bloomberg seems to think we as the dealer have control over that gun after it's bought and leaves the premises," Hill said. "Sorry - criminals cause the problem. Get the criminals. Put 'em in jail and keep them there. They don't do it again. Law enforcement ain't our job."
Hill said the raffle has tripled business since it began 10 days ago. For every $100 spent on anything in the store, customers receive a red raffle ticket.
A drawing will be held this spring, and the winner will receive a Para-Ordnance .45-caliber automatic, a military-style weapon worth about $750.
Dave Hancock, a longtime employee of the store, called the lawsuit an "absolute joke."
"We go above and beyond. It's not about making the sales, it's about making them the right way," he said. "Let's face it, you take a $500 gun that we make about $45 on. Why would we risk anything for that? It's not worth it."
On Tuesday, Bloomberg called organizers of the raffle "sick people."
The store, located on a busy strip next to a bank and across the street from a hotel, has been open for about 45 years, selling hunting, fishing and camping gear. "The lawsuit is stupid," said Glenn Anderson, 46, a contractor from Long Island who was visiting his sister in the area. "Bloom.berg being a Republican is a joke. He never was. He never will be."
When asked if he keeps a gun in his home, Anderson replied, "I have a gun in the car."
"We're basically driving money and customers to the very stores that he's trying to destroy," said Philip Van Cleave, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, which is sponsoring the contest.
Bloomberg "might hold the gospel in New York. He don't make too much waves down this way," Hill said. "He's just the mayor of New York, after all."
It's good to see that someone is profiting from Bloomberg's plea to make the country safe for muggers, murderer's and rapists, and let's never forget that pesky old document that he obviously has never read that contains something called the 2nd Amendment. In NYC, the 1st Amendment is Pay Those High Taxes To Keep The Welfare Checks A' Comin', and the 2nd is Don't Send My Poor Baby To Jail, Ban Those Awful Guns.Funny thing. I'd no idea that rednecks were the sole customers of gun shops. See. Learn something new every day.
UPDATISHNESS
This link will take you to the information necessary to contact Mr. Moates. Don't bother to click the link provided there, as it will open a clumsy page where I do suppose you could find his business listed SOMEWHERE, if you had, say, all the time in the world. Phone numbers and addresses, yes. Pity old Bob isn't internet literate because I'd have ordered a gun through him in a heartbeat if the job of doing so were made easier.
Still might. I'll try and call in the morning to see what he's got.
Now, I Doesn't Knows How...But...
WASHINGTON - "Every American should have health care coverage within six years, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) said Thursday as he set an ambitious goal soon after jumping into the 2008 presidential race.
"I am absolutely determined that by the end of the first term of the next president, we should have universal health care in this country," Obama told a conference of Families USA, a health care advocacy group.
The Illinois senator did not provide specifics on his plan for coverage."
Hahahahaha, cough, whew, beg pardon. But of COURSE Hussein didn't provide specifics. Because he HAS none. Never will. Unless taxing the ever-loving hell out of honest working people to pay for the welfare cases, can actually be considered a plan.
And a thousand pardons for the callous headline. Those Fort Worth college kids and their party goings-on still has me laughing. It IS beneath me. Sho' nuff.
Michael Yon Is Back In Iraq
"After spending most of 2005 in Iraq, five months of which were in Mosul, I am back to report on the progress and obstacles. There remain only a handful of US soldiers in Mosul, and they continue to fight every day. The Iraqi Security Forces here are vastly improved from 2005. Mosul is a key and critical city in this war. The terrorists want it badly. Practically the only thing standing between Mosul and the terrorists are the Iraqis who are tired of the violence, and the small group of American soldiers who are vastly outnumbered.
I am again with an American infantry unit, this time it is the 2/7 Cavalry, based in Texas. During the first week of my embed, the battalion lost 6 soldiers killed in action, and 1 interpreter. Others were severely wounded. They also were fighting back and inflicting worse damage on the enemy. "Desolate Roads Part 1 of 2," the dispatch now posted on the site, chronicles singular moments from the past two weeks in Mosul.
My request to extend the embed with the 2/7 Cavalry has been approved and I am looking forward to being able to observe and report on the dynamic situation on the ground here. Already, two of my camera lenses, my ballistic goggles and other expensive gear have been damaged beyond repair. The support of readers will determine how much longer I will be able to continue this work."
Very Respectfully,
Michael
Michael Yon
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Westport Pt MA 02791
Ann Coulter And The Name-Recognition Contests Passing For "Polls"
I AM WOMAN, HEAR ME BORE
"It's nice to have a president who is not so sleazy that not a single Supreme Court justice shows up for his State of the Union address (Bill Clinton, January 1999, when eight justices stayed away to protest Clinton's disregard for the law and David Souter skipped the speech to watch "Sex and the City").
Speaking of which, the horny hick's wife finally ended the breathless anticipation by announcing that she is running for president. I studied tapes of Hillary feigning surprise at hearing about Monica to help me look surprised upon learning that she's running.
As long as we have revived the practice of celebrating multicultural milestones (briefly suspended when Condoleezza Rice became the first black female to be secretary of state), let us pause to note that Mrs. Clinton, if elected, would be the first woman to become president after her husband had sex with an intern in the Oval Office.
According to the famed "polls" -- or, as I call them, "surveys of uninformed people who think it's possible to get the answer wrong" -- Hillary is the current front-runner for the Democrats. Other than the massive case of narcolepsy her name inspires, this would cause me not the slightest distress -- except for the fact that the Republicans' current front-runners are John McCain and Rudy Giuliani.
Fortunately, polls at this stage are nothing but name recognition contests, so please stop asking me to comment on them. "Arsenic" and "proctologist" have sky-high name recognition going for them, too.
In January, two years before the 2000 presidential election, the leading Republican candidate in New Hampshire was ... Liddy Dole (WMUR-TV/CNN poll, Jan. 12, 1999). In the end, Liddy Dole's most successful run turned out to be a mad dash from her husband Bob after he accidentally popped two Viagras.
At this stage before the 1992 presidential election, the three leading Democratic candidates were, in order: Mario Cuomo, Jesse Jackson and Lloyd Bentsen (Public Opinion Online, Feb. 21, 1991)..."
All Hands
Students at Texas College 'Celebrate' Martin Luther King Jr. Day by Throwing Stereotype Party
Whoa. So let me get this perfectly clear so even I can understand the hullabaloo. Citizens of these United States threw a party, broke no laws, but because their behavior happened to be tasteless, the school administrators are up in arms. "Last week, while the nation paused to remember the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a group of students at a Texas college outside Fort Worth marked the day by throwing a party that featured black stereotype costumes — including a student dressed as Aunt Jemima — a main course of fried chicken and cases of malt liquor. The insensitivity didn't end there. The students then brazenly posted their party photos on the popular Web site Facebook.com for all the world to see. School administrators at Tarleton State University in Stephenville told FOXNews.com they are investigating an off-campus Martin Luther King Jr. Day student party held on Jan. 15 that the school's president called "reprehensible." "I am personally insulted by these photographs and am disappointed that Tarleton students have demonstrated such insensitivity," university President Dennis P. McCabe wrote in a letter to students and faculty posted on the school's Web site Wednesday."
This is what stupid kids DO. If they held a toga party, should Greek-Americans and Italian-Americans spew bile in protest?
What's "reprehensible" is ANYONE daring to tell people...who harmed NO ONE...how to have fun.
Disgusting, multi-cultural socialists make me sick.
And yes, Woody. "White Chicks" was funny as all hell but libs are allowed to make racist movies any damned time they well please, but let some dumb ass kids try something AS stupid and the whiny shitstorm is only a loons-throw away.
"I don't know what America these kids think they live in but they better wise up..." said a socialist pinko commie commentator.
Eat me.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Rare Primitive Shark Caught On Film...
A species of shark rarely seen alive because its natural habitat is 600 metres (2,000 ft) or more under the sea was captured on film by staff at a Japanese marine park this week.
More here:
• Snowy the white squirrel settles in gardens
• The curious incident of the fox in the shoe shop
The Awashima Marine Park in Shizuoka, south of Tokyo, was alerted by a fisherman at a nearby port on Sunday that he had spotted an odd-looking eel-like creature with a mouthful of needle-sharp teeth.
Marine park staff caught the 1.6 metre (5 ft) long creature, which they identified as a female frilled shark, sometimes referred to as a "living fossil" because it is a primitive species that has changed little since prehistoric times.
The shark appeared to be in poor condition when park staff moved it to a seawater pool where they filmed it swimming and opening its jaws.
The Spirit Of Thermopylae
"...In the morning, after a short meeting of the war council, it was decided that Thermopylae was an undefendable outpost. Leonidas and his army of 7,000 were ordered back south to Athens before they were encircled and it became too late to leave; but, although it was even acceptable in the martial Spartan tradition to abandon a post that was undefendable, he refused. He ordered all of the allied forces under his command back south to Athens; he had decided this is where he and his Spartans would die. The allied forces complied, and all that was left was the obedient 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians who said they would fight to the end, and 400 Thebans. That night, it is recorded that Leonidas toasted to all of his troops during their last meal: "Tonight, we shall Sup with Pluto!" In other words, "this is our last meal before we feast with the Dead!"
As the first light from Sol Invictus began to shine down upon the fatigued Hellenic forces, Leonidas and his men prepared for war. With the pan-Hellenic forces of 7,000, Leonidas had stood on the defensive; however, his only desire now was to make as great a slaughter as possible, so as to inspire the enemy with dread of the Greek name.
Without fear, and without waiting to be attacked, he and his small force of 1,400 went on the offensive. The 300 Spartans butchered Persians by the droves; Thespians fought with vigor; the Thebans fought for their lives. Leonidas was one of the first to be cut down, and the battle for his corpse would leave two Persian princes, Xerxes' brothers, dead; the Spartans refused to allow their dead king to be displayed as some trophy piece.
It was obvious the Greeks were superior soldiers man for man, but the tremendous numbers of their enemy soon began to wear them down: their spears broke from excessive use, and their swords began to dull. Before their final collapse, the Spartans and Thespians made their way to a little hillock within the wall, and there they made their last stand; the courage displayed by the Thebans vanished, and they surrendered to the Persians. They were given quarter, but all were branded with the king's mark as untrustworthy deserters.
The Greek historian Herodotus in his History recorded the final moments of the battle:
... the small desperate band stood side by side on the hill still fighting to the last, some with swords, others with daggers, others even with their hands and teeth, till not one living man remained amongst them when the sun went down. There was only a mound of slain, bristled with arrows ... those with weapons still clutching them.Twenty thousand Persians had died before that small number of men!
After the battle, Xerxes asked Demaratus if there were many more at Sparta like the 300. He was told there were 8,000 more like them. Xerxes was not enthralled with this answer, and ordered more reinforcements.
Leonidas' body was cut up and displayed to deter the Greeks from resisting, but the warning did not work. The Spartans would clash shields again with the Persians many more times, and Persian defeat would eventually come when a Spartan named Aristodemus, who was evacuated at Thermopylae with the allied forces (he was deathly ill, but called a "coward" nonetheless by his fellow Spartan citizens) fought in the name of Leonidas and crushed the Persians one last time and drove them ingloriously from Greece.
It is this Western spirit of determination that gave the 182 at the Alamo the courage to resist an overwhelming Mexican Army of 4,000, slaughtering 1,400 Mexicans before being taken. It is this battle hardness that allowed 105 British Soldiers to repel an attack of 4,000 Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift, who after the battle were honored by the Zulus for resisting overwhelming odds. It is this innate legacy that gave the Totenkoph Division of the Waffen-SS -- bruised, battered, and battle fatigued -- the spirit which refused to surrender. They held their ground for 73 days against impossible odds in the Demyansk Pocket against a Red Army many times their number. And it is the same unwavering dedication that gave the 1st Marine Division in Korea the determination to duke it out with 10 Red Chinese divisions at Chosin; outmanned 10-1, they fought vigorously, finally making their way back to sea after breaking through an entrapment of insurmountable odds. Like those at the Alamo, Rorke's Drift, or the Waffen-SS at Demyansk, the United States Marine Corps stayed dedicated to their one commandment: Semper Fidelis! -- Always Faithful! [Image: Athena mourning a dead Greek hero; fifth-century marble relief in the Acropolis Museum.]
Today, however, Western man's life is out of balance. The unwritten codes of honor, values thousands of years old, seem to be no more: the courageousness of his spirit has been siphoned to near extinction from his soul. On the modern battlefield, too many fail to speak up because they are afraid of the PC Hit Squad calling them "fascist," "racist," or "neo-Nazi." Of the great feats recorded in our history, our most disgraceful is not defeat by the hands of the enemy, but in modern times our servile acceptance of such words, which have become a wall that we must surmount to regain our cultural sanity. Such cowardliness was not a trait of our ancestors, and although many of us call ourselves descendants of these heroes, I will continue to doubt it until I see legions upon legions of Euros marching to defend the West."
Why Glock
"Didnt the Austrain Army first pick Glock becaues they were made there...?"
When, in 1982, the Austrian Army announced they were ready to begin taking bids for a new service pistol, they instituted a few requirements that were somewhat stringent. Along with the usual drop tests and accuracy determinations, exposure to extreme temperature variations as well as submersion in water, ice, and mud, and with NO user intitiated safeties, randomly selected pistols must be capable of firing 10,000 rounds with no more than 20 stoppages. Then, the weapon in question must be capable of being field stripped by hand coordination only, and without the use of any tools.
During this first 10,000 round test, the Glock 17 had one (1) stoppage, as one (1) round failed to eject and permit the magazine to feed in another. In addition, after every 3,000 guns manufactured, one pistol is to be created from the disassembled parts of five (5), and the full range of tests conducted again. To add more fly's in the ointment, each and every Glock must fully function using standard, low, and high-pressure ammunition. High-pressure being determined to equal as closely as possible, but not exceed 56,000 PSI. Subsequent high-pressure determinations for the .40 caliber Glocks were fired using the same 56,000 PSI standard, but in order for the 357 SIG to pass, the high-pressure evaluation was raised to 61,000 PSI.
Aside from Glock, every major European pistol manufacturer entered the original bidding. None of the others passed. The Army had two choices; take a chance on Glock, or lower their admittedly new and previously untried standards.
They picked Glock. I guess I would have, too, regardless of from whence the pistol came. When someone who hasn't clue-one inquires as to what all the fuss is about, it IS fussible because Glock went toe-to-toe with the best in the business, as for all intent and purpose, a start-up company that had never made a gun before. We'll get in to the polymer-schmolymer at a later date, and maybe have a go at detailing the SMOCK...S&W's attempt at ripping off Gaston.
Oh yeah, almost forgot. Glock was also 25% lower in price than the next lowest bid.
Hosed
Up to 20,000 Canadians may have unknowingly lost their citizenship by failing to celebrate their 24th birthdays in Canada, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Wednesday. An obscure provision in that nation's Citizenship Act — on the books from 1947 to 1977 — automatically stripped citizenship from Canadians who celebrated their 24th birthday outside the country within those dates without signing the proper form, CBC News said. Now as Canadians rush to get passports to comply with regulations requiring them for entry into the United States, some are finding they are no longer Canadians in good standing. Septuagenarian Barbara Porteous discovered last year while applying for a passport that she had lost her citizenship, CBC News reported. Click here to read the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. story. "These documents confirm you were a Canadian citizen, but you ceased being a Canadian citizen on June 14, 1960, the day following your 24th birthday," a letter from Citizenship and Immigration read. "I cried for a couple of hours," Porteous told CBC News. "I mean, the hollowness you get inside when you find out that everything you live for is gone." Porteous is part of a group called the Lost Canadians, a group that may be as large as 20,000 — many of whom have no idea that they've lost their citizenship. The Canadian government has moved to fast track the reinstatement of citizenship for the Lost Canadians. "We're trying to right the wrongs of the past and do the reasonable thing, the right thing, for what are essentially Canadians in all but name," Citizenship and Immigration Minister Diane Finley told CBC News, agreeing that many more such laws need changing as well. "It's simply a shame," Minister Finley continued, "that many people failed to realize that tatooing the words to Oh Canada on one's buttocks before the age of 42 also slipped by un-noticed, and because so few people were aware of this we estimate that approximately 97% of our population of 32,800,000 have also lost their citizenship. Adding that to the death-rate, the conclusion can easily be drawn that there are approximately 12 legal Canadian citizens in all the known world, and that's just not right." Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper could not reached for comment, as his office returned email messages informing the news media that PM Harper was not to be bothered until the pain from his recent "cheek-work" subsided. "He wasn't just now getting the required tatoo," the mail went on to say, "but a few of the words had blurred and he wanted to be sure it passed muster."
Iran: Israel, US will soon die
"Israel and the United States will soon be destroyed, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday during a meeting with Syria's foreign minister, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) website said in a report. "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad… assured that the United States and the Zionist regime of Israel will soon come to the end of their lives," the Iranian president was quoted as saying. "Sparking discord among Muslims, especially between the Shiites and Sunnis, is a plot hatched by the Zionists and the US for dominating regional nations and looting their resources," Ahmadinejad added, according to the report.
The Iranian president also directly tied events in Lebanon to a wider plan aimed at Israel's destruction. He called on "regional countries" to "support the Islamic resistance of the Lebanese people and strive to enhance solidarity and unity among the different Palestinian groups in a bid to pave the ground for the undermining of the Zionist regime whose demise is, of course, imminent."
Ahmadinejad has threatened the State of Israel with annihilation several times in recent months, and has recently added the US and Britain to the list of countries he says will be destroyed."
I don't quake in my boots every time some tin horn dictator boasts about destroying America. Hell, the Soviets were known to pull off a shoe and pound a podium with it as they shouted for our demise, and they had the means to do it.
Problem with Ahmadimeadozen thinking the same thoughts is the fact that he's a religious nutcase who believes his god will lend a helping hand. We've seen what such moslem's are capable of, but then again we haven't, not all of us. The majority of Americans give but a cursory glance, if any, at the news that seems too scary to believe. All we really need to do is talk to him and those like him. A nice lunch will clear the air. Exchange some gifts. Dialogue is cheap and doesn't get anyone hurt, and who really wants to see anyone hurt.
He does. Bigtime. And the target in his crosshairs is us. If Blowjob Billy were still in office, or, even worse, Jimmy Carter, I'd be worrying about people like Ahma, and Lil Kimmy, and even the Chinese who don't know about the weapons we've got. The world is no where near as dangerous as it was when Krushchev was beating that podium because we spent enough time drawing away from him and his brethren in the area that matters most. And, for the time being, our Commander in Chief isn't afraid to sic the dogs on whomever would scheme for our demise.
For the next couple of years, at least. If RodHam someway, somehow, escapes the vetting unscathedbecause enough soccer moms want another thick-ankled gal as someone's CEO then all bets are off. Ahma and his partners in crime know this. That's why they cheer along the democrats. With enough of them at the switch, they've nothing to fear.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Molon Labe
"Our arrows will blot out the sun..."
"Then we shall fight in the shade."
"Give up your arms and you shall live..."
"Molon Labe." (Come take them)
Blogger Boogered
Blogger is rampagingly screwed this day. It's been on and off glitchy for some time, but I've taken to actually saving posts in Note Pad because spending half the time trying to get something posted and receiving error messages simply sucks. Accessing my favorite blogs has been a bummer too if they are via Blogger, and I still wonder how many total hits the more popular fellas and gals would get if the bloody thing worked. I won't go back to error laden websites and I'll wager that a lot of other folks give up easily as well.
Also, am still unable to switch to the new version. Maybe by '09.
More Gun Deals...
J & G Sales is offering some decent firearms at halfway decent prices:
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Most Popular Glock Models In The US
.40 caliber: 116,100
9mm: 104,700
.45 caliber: 43,800
357 SIG: 19,800
.45 GAP: 18,000
10 mm: 15,600
This is with reference to 2006, and the approximate 318,000 Glocks sold throughout the country. For the first time ever, the .40 outsold the 9 mm, and for 2007 Glock expects the .45 caliber lineup to exceed 50,000 units sold, and if the G-21SF becomes popular, Glock is considering "slimming" the 10 mm line down as well. For 2007, Glock is predicting an upsurge in 357 SIG sales, but still doesn't expect to sell more than 30,000 or thereabouts, depending of course on how many additional LE agencies can be converted. Glock still doesn't know if SIG sales will be at the expense of the 40, 9 mm, from new LE customers, or if it will eat into any of the other calibers at all.
Also, many GAPS were virtually given away by Glock in order to get them in the hands of as many LE purchasing agents as possible, so while only 18,000 are listed as sold, there could in fact be twice as many in circulation. Add SIG to the list of sales versus actual guns in leather. Glock could easily have floated 30,000 freebies into the country, and the good part about this is the fact that retired LE weapons usually wind up at pawn shops or in the USED aisle at gun stores, and for the shooting consumer, the more the merrier.
All of the above numbers were related to me by a Glock rep in Smyrna, Georgia. This is someone who has always been spot-on before, so I have no reason to doubt him, plus the sales figures jibe with what the industry had estimated.
And Now, For Something Totally Different...
Horny housewives heading off to Bangkok to grab a slice of the Thai life
"Herds* of horny Japanese women are flocking to Thailand to make sure its capital city lives up to its name, according to Shukan Shincho (1/25).
Bangkok and its myriad netherworld charms have apparently been drawing Japanese women by the planeload over the past few years.
"Go-go boys started off working at gay bars by servicing mostly German and Australian women. Women of Japanese businessmen stationed in Thailand started going off to buy them while their husbands were otherwise occupied. Those women would go home and tell their friends about what they'd done and then they'd all come back to Bangkok again together. Bangkok earned itself a reputation and women started coming here in small groups," a former trade company employee once stationed in the Thai capital tells Shukan Shincho.
Japanese women are providing plenty of patronage for the gay bars where the go-go boys work along Bangkok's Soy Twilight. Many of the bars feature the boys dancing naked on stage. Women buy them drinks costing from 20 to 30 Baht (about 700 to 1,000 yen).
"They really love it when you give them a drink. They sit beside you, give you kisses, put their arms around you or massage your shoulders from behind," an "Office Lady" from Saitama Prefecture, who frequently travels on tours to Bangkok's boy bars, tells Shukan Shincho. "We talk in broken English and broken Japanese. But it's not about the conversation. It's all about the teasing and feeling good. After drinking for a while they'll ask you to go outside with them. Normally, they have to deal with these doddering old Europeans who want them to touch or kiss their willies, which isn't much fun for the go-go boys."
Many of the go-go boys have families of their own and sell their bodies to support them. It costs the women a 500 Baht (about 1,700 yen) bar fine to get the boys to go out with them, while the market rate is another 2,000 Baht (about 7,000 yen) if she wants to take him back to her hotel room. Many hotels also charge an additional 1,000 Baht if they bring somebody back.
"Japanese women tend to be smart. They travel in pairs and hire out a twin room. One will bring a boy home during the day while the other goes shopping," a worker from a Bangkok hotel says, adding that it makes it impossible for the hotels to apply surcharges if the go-go boys are escorted into rooms during broad daylight.
The lure of go-go boys is often all it takes to get many Japanese women to Bangkok. A Japanese journalist working in the Thai capital elaborates.
"There's a 28-year-old OL I know who first came to Bangkok on a holiday 18 months ago and loved the go-go boys so much she has been coming back to Bangkok twice a month ever since," the journalist says. "She stays at five-star hotels costing 20,000 yen a night and keeps the boys with her for a week ... When she gets sick of one guy, she simply calls up another one. She says she feels like a princess. Thai men are really kind and make a big fuss over her."
Another Japanese woman, this one a 30-year-old OL from Kanagawa Prefecture, was also delighted by the go-go boys from Bangkok. She went out dancing with a group of three boys, including one who called himself "Takeshi."
"Takeshi asked me if I'd like to go home with him. We got into a taxi and went to his house, which was a fancy place. We have a few beers, then Takeshi asked me if I'd like to see his bedroom on the second floor. I knew what was going to happen and my heart started pounding. I told him he had to wear a condom and he took one out of his pocket and waved it in front of my eyes. We had a laugh and fell down on his bed.He was hung even bigger than he'd looked like while on stage. It was huge. I was a bit worried about whether it would fit, but it was wonderful," the OL gushes to Shukan Shincho, adding that one of the other go-go-boys soon came along and wanted to join in. "Takeshi asked me what I wanted to do. I said it was all right as long as he used protection. That guy brought a condom out of his pocket and showed me, too. It looked like they'd done this kind of thing before. It was the first time I'd ever had a three-in-a-bed romp. One would pleasure me with their mouth while the other used other parts. I guess because they were used to working the gay scene, they tried to go through the back door, too, but I told them not to do that. At about 6 o'clock in the morning, Takeshi called me a tuk-tuk and took me back to my hotel. It was an unbelievably wonderful experience."
*And from what I've seen of some of the Japanese women visiting Bangkok, herd seems just about right. Look at it this way; compared to the average size of one of their men, PeeWee Herman is a stallion.
Whitey Needs Not Apply
"As a white liberal running in a majority African American district, Tennessee Democrat Stephen I. Cohen made a novel pledge on the campaign trail last year: If elected, he would seek to become the first white member of the Congressional Black Caucus. Now that he's a freshman in Congress, Cohen has changed his plans. He said he has dropped his bid after several current and former caucus members made it clear to him that whites need not apply. "I think they're real happy I'm not going to join," said Cohen, who succeeded Rep. Harold Ford, D-Tenn., in the Memphis district. "It's their caucus and they do things their way. You don't force your way in. You need to be invited." Cohen said he became convinced that joining the caucus would be "a social faux pas" after seeing news reports that former Rep. William Lacy Clay Sr., D-Mo., a co-founder of the caucus, had circulated a memo telling members it was "critical" that the group remain "exclusively African-American." Forget for a moment how racist this is, and think about poor Obama Hussein. Only half black , would HE be a mere 50% invested in the BLACK CAUCUS?
"I will switch to knives, ballbats, and cinder blocks whenever possible."
Schools enter effort against gun violence with student pledges
"I will never bring a gun to school.
I will never use a gun to settle a personal problem or dispute.
I will use my influence with my friends to keep them from using guns to settle disputes.
I will promise to live by this pledge."
The Pledge Against Guns is something moonbats dream up when confronted with a problem of their own creation. Isolate a group of people, drum into them the fact that they are stupid and need special treatment, and when such a disfunctional society turns to crime and violence then blame a tool. Make no mistake about it, violence is sacred, in part because everyone has the need to excel and when believing yourself to be inferior it becomes natural to try and prove otherwise.
Monday, January 22, 2007
Is That A Magnum In Your Rig Or Are You Just Happy to See Me...
"So whats the news about the original 357 bullet weights? All I here is 125 grains was the magic bullet back in the day..."
Nah. One of the few good things about becoming ancient is you recall what others have to learn about from the misinformation super loway. 158 grain rounds were all the rage when the .357 was making it's bones as THE law enforcement handgun charge. 6" barrels were spinning these pills out at 1500 fps+, and then a funny thing happened on the way to the firing. S&W introduced the K frame. Standard loads played havoc with the premise of firing one's gun yet remaining an opposable thumbed biped, and Smith came down hard and heavy upon the ammunition manufacturers.
Enter the 125. At approximately the same velocity, it was less formidable with regards to returning home from the range with all of the pieces you left with, and a lesson had been learned. Keep downloading the bloody things until the guns stopped blowing up real good.
Remember, or hear about it for the first time; revolvers carried 6 shots, an awful lot of officers were damned good, made them count, and accuracy was most likely as important as velocity. Well, but of course it is. More so. But the plink a gremlin in the sternum and have him spit out a lung wasn't working as well with the lighter loads, and this tempest in a lead pot continued until the wonder-nines made remonstrations to the contrary moot. Yes, the 125's certainly saw their share of deceased and soon forgotten wastrels, but the 158's paved the way.
To this day you have to roll your own or seek a boutique manufacturer if you want the original load, because the ammo boys ran scared and kept on running. The anemic variations from Winchester, Remington, and Speer are controllable, won't send anyone to the emergency room from the trigger end of the equation, and who cares because the cops stopped packing that sort of heat eons ago.
And it's too bad. Modern bullet technology coupled with the old giddyup would have been a thing to behold. Not that Double-Tap, or Buffalo Bore make anything to sneeze at, but its Gold Dots, or perhaps you'd like some Gold Dots. They stay together quite well even at warp factor 9, and the DT and BB fella's aren't bullet makers but case packers. It'd take a major outfit with deep pockets to reinvent the wheel with 21st Century techno, and why bother since recoil is icky. Just ask the FBI whatever happened to the 10 mm. Jeff Cooper saw it as a potential .357 in a bottomfeeder, but limpwristed G-Men sniffled until bad bullet went away.
The thought of a Winchester Ranger-T in 158 grains hauling along at 1500 fps makes me all aflutter. You'll settle for their .38 Special +P, though, and like it. So will the bad guy.
After Years Of Pleading For One...
Ruger has finally announced that it will offer a Redhawk with a 4" barrel. Luckily, I happened upon the news before getting too far along in sending a 5.5" version out for a snip job. No word yet on the pricing, but around $650 seems close enough. The grip will be different than the one pictured, as they've decided to go with a Hogue rubber, and from experience I can attest to the fact that they work wonders in dampening recoil. Now to see if Double-Tap will crank out some specialty rounds. I'd ask Crazy Jay but he's been playing "where'd the top strap go" a little too much lately, along with "anyone see my cylinder.."
When will they be available? Don't know. They take their time in answering emails.
And no, Carl. You can't fan it.
If Ever There Was A Time To Go To The Mattresses...
It'd be now, and against these traitorous scum disguised as an American business... "An American GI assigned to one of the harshest posts in Iraq had a simple request last week for a Wisconsin mattress company: send some floor mats to help ease the hardship of sleeping on the cold, bug-infested ground. What he got, instead, was a swift kick from the company's Web site, which not only refused the request but added insult to injury with the admonition, "If you were sensible, you and your troops would pull out of Iraq." Army Sgt. Jason Hess, stationed in Taji, Iraq, with the 1st Cavalry Division, said he emailed his request to Discount-mats.com because he and his fellow soldiers sleep on the cold ground, which contains sand mites, sand flies and other disease carriers. In his email, dated Jan. 16, 2007, he asked the Web-based company, registered to Faisal Khetani, an American Muslim of Pakistani descent: "Do you ship to APO (military) addresses? I'm in the 1st Cavalry Division stationed in Iraq and we are trying to order some mats but we are looking for ships to APO first." On the same day, Hess received this reply: "SGT Hess, We do not ship to APO addresses, and even if we did, we would NEVER ship to Iraq. If you were sensible, you and your troops would pull out of Iraq. Bargain Suppliers Khetani on Monday told FOX News that the person responsible for the email reply had been fired. The Web site, meanwhile, has been temporarily taken down. Hess emailed that he has since found two mat suppliers willing to ship to an APO address in Iraq."
Discount-Mats.com"
It's why some of us continue the fight. Never again to be betrayed by the cowardly left.
Ah, The Good Old Days Can Always Be Re-lived In The Right Old Fashioned Enough Country, Eh, Barney?
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- "The footage is shocking: A man lies screaming on the floor of a police station as officers sodomize him with a wooden pole.
Compounding the shock, it turns out that it was the police who made the film, and that they then transmitted it to the cell phones of the victim's friends in order to humiliate him.
Egyptian officials say they have introduced a human rights training program for police and a commission to investigate torture allegations. They also say cases of torture have fallen since 1999, but give no numbers. The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights says it documented 120 deaths from torture from 1993 to 2004, 15 of them in the last year it counted.
Hafez Abu Saada, secretary general of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, said his group reports some 400 cases of alleged police abuse a year. He said 20 percent result in prosecutions, and convictions are much rarer.
In 2002, eight police officers were convicted of torturing detainees to death and sentenced to between one and 10 years in prison. Two years later, three senior police officers were tried for torturing a prisoner to confess that he killed his daughter, who turned out to be alive. Their sentences ranged from one to three years, but they were acquitted in a retrial."Thanks to War on Guns, who keeps a close eye on the Only Ones.
Snake Loads
"Ive tried to follow the Box O' Truth recommendation for snake loads, but is it much better than buying the already made bullets...?"
First off, #12 shot is the only thing you should even think of using for snake loads. A .45 Colt capsule will hold approximately 1000 #12 pellets and a .44 Special somewhere upwards of 800. .38 Special? You'll be lucky to cram in much more than 600. And remember that many commercial loads will not cycle a semi-automatic, and others are not recommended for use in a revolver. How can you tell when you've done the deed? If you're not all but totally obliterating a pie plate at 10 feet you've got the wrong load. You want the slitherer in question to be chewed nearly in two by ONE squeeze. You can look it up, but I believe that some snakes are highly venomous and not to be wounded, or pissed off. No squiggling, no, gee is it dead, no mercy. When I looked at the Box-Bore and saw him counting 17 hits at 8' on the target using his .38 and 49 holes from the .44, I clicked my way out before tossing the keyboard through this oversized monitor. The holes should be too numerous to count, but I expected nothing less from the master of ineptitude.
Forget what CCI sells as loaded shot, as they're all but worthless. You have three alternatives; load your own, have someone load for you, or forget about it. There are no commercial shot loads worth a damn at anything farther away than 4 or 5 feet tops, and for me that's far too close. Again, cram 600-800-1000 #12 in each caliber, and if you dont see close to one chewed-through hole then you've done something wrong. There are plenty of powder charges available from experts who know powder, but I do not. And for the love of Pete don't go counting every last shot. Weigh 20 or 30 then remember your grade school math to arrive at the total number. At the end of the day it's simply cram the CCI capsules until they are as full as full can be and fire away. I included the total number of shot just to provide a clue as to how off base Box was, but a little more or less won't hurt and you've simply GOT to do better than he did by simply half trying.
Iraq's Moslems Wanted A Rerun of 9/11...
January 22, 2007 -- "Iraqi insurgents planned to sneak into the U.S. with student visas and carry out a new round of 9/11 style attacks, it was reported today.
The plot was discovered when coalition forces raided a hideout in Iraq six months ago and captured documents about it, Lt. General Michael Maples, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, recently testified.
ABC News said Iraqi members of Al Qaeda planned to move between 10 and 20 terrorists into the U.S. using student visas, just as the 19 conspirators who carried out the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks in 2001 did.
The new plot was discovered in its early stages and there is no sign that any terrorists reached American soil, sources told ABC.
The conspirators were described as closely tied to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, who was killed by U.S. forces last year."
How shocking. Could have bowled me over with a wet-noodled liberal. And speaking of the lower forms of life, I've made the mistake of listening to talk radio of late. The loons who were groveling at the feet of Blowjob Billy, didn't understand, and never will, that the economy and national defense, and pretty much everything the man touched had turned to shite or was on the way towards being such. To compare his reign, and lets face it, since the coronation by the liberal press it was nothing if not a royal 8 years, instead of what in actuality was a royal screwing, to compare how he left the country to what Bush has done, 9/11, and fighting the ensuing war that Clinton COULD have, if not prevented, then at least saved thousands of American civilian lives, to compare that out-of-his-league shyster to a wartime President...warts and all...is astounding.
And the worst part? Not that the liberals don't get it, cowards rarely do, no, the worst part is the so called Republicans joining in the chorus of how badly Bush has handled the war in Iraq.
What has been done in Iraq is nothing short of fantastic. The moronic trolls who believe war to be a video game will always be with us, but to see fellow Conservatives jumping the bandwagon of Bush-Sucks, means that they were never true Conservatives to begin with, because, WE know better.
Of course Bush has a lot to answer for. Invading Iraq and killing our enemies isn't one of them.
Enough with the kid-gloves. Unleash our dogs of war. And the libs? Well they don't really have any plans, now do they? The nation is going great guns and yet they want to change things. Change what? Low unemployment, the shrinking deficit, our enemies driven before us and cowering in caves, precisely WHAT needs change?
The video game generation wants a reboot because we've taken casualties.
Welcome to planet earth.
Adrienne Shelly's "Waitress" Film Debuts
January 22, 2007 -- PARK CITY, Utah - "There were tears mixed with cheers as "Waitress," the final film from murdered actress/director Adrienne Shelly, had its world premiere yesterday at the Sundance Film Festival.
"This is not in any way a screening that is meant to be a wake," the festival's executive director, Geoffrey Gilmore, said in introducing the bittersweet comedy, which he emphasized had been accepted before Shelly's death.
"There's a joie de vivre in this film that I think she'd want us to celebrate."
An emotional Michael Roiff, the movie's producer, said, "She's not here right now, but I know she'd be ecstatic about all you people seeing it here."
Shelly was murdered Nov. 1 in Greenwich Village - before she had been notified that "Waitress," her first film as a director, was to be accepted to the festival, where it played to an overflow crowd at a 2,700-seat auditorium.
In a crime that shocked the city, police said the 40-year-old Shelly was killed by a 19-year-old, undocumented construction worker from Ecuador after the pair got into an argument in her building.
Shelly wrote "Waitress," which was filmed in late 2005 near Los Angeles, when she was pregnant with her daughter.
"I was really scared about the idea of having a baby," Shelly said in the film's publicity notes.
"I was terrified, and I really had never seen that reflected in anything, not in a book or in a movie. It's almost like a sacrilege to say that becoming a mother is scary."
Just about EVERY first-time mother is scared. Not every mother hires an ILLEGAL ALIEN and is strangled after a lengthy bout of shouting at him about how he could get his beaner-ass back home if he didn't shape up.
Any innocent person's death is a tragedy. Dealing with the scum of the earth has it's dangers, and instead of her killing being a lesson and generating the horror and ire necessary to assist in curing one of the country's biggest travesty's, they can't even call her murderer what he was, and continue to pretend that his ilk are nothing more than some poor schmoe who lost his drivers license.
Undocument this.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
The Modern Revolver
More on the World of Guns from which the revolver picture was taken, later...
Okay, it's later. Interesting in how little total hits the big gun sites get on a daily basis. I do suppose that since most people are heavily into blogging and/or the High Road/Glock Talk/Firing Line, etc. type of thread-communications, so they must generate activity equalling or exceeding some of the bigger blogs.
Pity we can't get all of these gun owners and enthusiasts to vote, isn't it.
"Criminal" Athletes
Phil Mushnick is one of NYC's most conservative sports writers. He abhors the clowning athelete who places self above team, and for the most part calls the spade a spade...
January 21, 2007 -- "IF YOU intend to commit a crime or two, but expect sympathy and support from the media in return, perhaps it's best to first be a member of the Chicago Bears defense.
Last Sunday, after defensive tackle Tank Johnson made a game-saving sack late in regulation, Fox's Joe Buck seemed to marvel at the accomplishment: "It's Tank Johnson, with all he's been through." And then Buck left it at that.
Those unfamiliar with what Johnson has "been through" might have thought someone close to him had died - an aunt, maybe, or his grandmother.
Well, someone close to him had died. Willie Posey, Johnson's friend and bodyguard - Johnson, at 6-3, 300, needs protection - was shot dead in a nightclub. Johnson was with him. Posey was a convicted felon for drugs and armed robbery.
A day earlier, Johnson and Posey had been arrested following a raid on Johnson's house. Police found drugs and an arsenal, including three assault rifles and more than 500 rounds of ammo. Johnson already was on probation for a prior arrest, a weapons charge.
Yep, Tank had been through a lot."
...Except when it comes to the matter of the 2nd Amendment. Instead of focusing upon the illegal gun laws of Illinois, and the fact that in most states what Tank Johnson did would not be considered criminal, Mushnick leaps on the anti bandwagon and declares Johnson to be a felon. Three assault rifles. Were I to be a gun owner I'd have 3 times that many, but would be wise enough to own them in a state that allows me to excercise my RIGHTS. And 500 rounds of ammunition? Well, for each gun and rifle, sure. None of this is illegal except in the liberal blissninny-villes such as Ill-Annoy, and THAT should have been mentioned.
What Tank is truly guilty of is being unwise. How could I possible be a member of the Free-Wayne Web Ring, and NOT stand up for Johnson? And please, Phil, being large means nothing when faced with a firearm. Of course he needed a bodyguard. Ever hear this old line..."God made men but Colonel Colt made them equal."?
Truer words were never spoken. I shade Tank by an inch or two going vertical but am near to 30 pounds under his horizontal, and all this means is knowing about size versus modern weaponry. A Golden BB fells either of us like a tree falling on the safe side of a lumberjack.
This is what we're faced with, what I harp upon. Fellow Conservatives in the media don't give a tinkers dam when it comes to the 2nd Amendment.
Sorry, tank, you were an idiot going to a fun place that required a weapon in order to survive the visit. For that you should be criticized. Your situational awareness meter needs to be kicked up a notch or two, but you had the right to be armed.
Michell Malkin With Proof The AP Provides Exciting Fiction
When first beginning this blog, Shooting the Messenger meant discrediting and/or laughing at liberal news from the liberal media. That lasted a day or two. The more I read badly written, or religion looking for an outlet disguising itself as an eclectic Conservative web log, or RINO bigwigs wanting a piece of the action, the more it became necessary to take aim at the preachers and screechers who declared themselves to be seated at the right side of the aisle and agenda-free save for the protection of the Republic. The links dwindled to exlude the hallelujah chorus and the professors of the painfully obvious, and I couldn't bear the clueless either so they went to link heaven too. I've kept LGF and Malkin out and about because it's silly to exclude the top of the food chain even if they remain johnny one-note's. It is impossible for one or two people to follow each and every item of interest on a daily basis, and I can understand why LGF focuses upon the moslem menace. But proprietor Charles is an Anti and it is difficult to advertise a gun-hater no matter how pretty his work looks otherwise, and the enemy of my enemy is my associate but never a friend.
Malkin is another story. As part of the Pajama Media gang, the kneejerk reaction cound have been banishment but even if people only spend 10 or 15 seconds at her site, they spend it en masse, and the gal-bloggers are always going to accumulate the most hits no matter how pigeon-holed they are. She keeps a wary eye on islam and the loons in D.C., but there isn't one big name female blogger that can profess a true love for the Constitution because they MUST remain as middle of the road as possible in order to appeal to the masses.
Because let's face it, we ain't the masses. We're the fringe, the nutcases, the blowhards, the gun-owners who are ridiculed by the left, and for the most part ignored by the big right. It'd take an act of Congress for me to go spend my money in D.C. for a "conservative" shindig, but that's where the boys and girls who are outside the trenches go to party, leaving us to man the front lines. We do this without hesitation, but rely upon them for logistic support and when said support is not forthcoming out comes the quibble-stick.
Ms Malkin was in Iraq. The story of hers in todays NY Post features evidence that certain AP stories were fictional accounts, and this is not only old "news" it's so-what "news" to the fortunate few that need no reminder of how insidious the Associated Press can be. But the fence-sitters pay the bills and just in case they weren't aware of such goings on, Ms Malkin reiterates the obvious.
DESTROYED - NOT
LURID AP REPORT ON IRAQ OUTRAGE DOESN'T CHECK OUT
January 21, 2007 -- "WELL, the Iraqi Ministry of Interior says disputed Associated Press source Jamil Hussein does exist. But at least one story he told the AP just doesn't check out: The Sunni mosques that as Hussein claimed and AP reported as "destroyed," "torched" and "burned and [blown] up" are all still standing. So the credibility of every AP story relying on Jamil Hussein remains dubious."Yes; I said it, you said it, we all said it, but she can draw more eyes to the truth.
Grocery Stores Think They Can Beat Wal-Mart By Being "Different"
"According to Retail Forward, 10 years ago, supermarkets accounted for 44 percent of food and drug retail sales. Nowadays, Skrovan says, it's down to 28 percent. Skrovan said Retail Forward found only a third of shoppers polled in the company's Shopper Scan survey still made a weekly trek to the supermarket. Plenty of factors are chipping away at grocery sales. "Supercenters are a big change driver," Skrovan said during the Web seminar, noting that Wal-Mart's food business was estimated to total $120 billion in domestic 2005 sales. Meanwhile, Target stores (as well as smaller retailers, like dollar stores) are devoting more shelf space to food. The key: Be different In order to better compete with the price-slashing capabilities of giants like Wal-Mart and Target, today's grocery stores must re-invent their core selection and focus on a new mix of categories, ranging from ethnic to gourmet to organic foods, said Dan Stanek, executive vice president of Retail Forward, during the Web seminar. Lakeland-based Publix, he noted, was experimenting with this concept by testing a "store within a store" hawking health-focused, natural and organic products under Publix's Greenwise banner. Locally, a new Mandarin Publix location on San Jose Boulevard has devoted several aisles to its Greenwise store, which has seen success, according to Dwaine Stevens, a Publix spokesman. "I'll put it this way: (Greenwise) has been largely accepted by our customers," Stevens said, noting that Publix executives are pleased with its performance. "I think with this particular market, customers are looking for something unique: customer service and a huge offering of products." That's a sentiment echoed by Retail Forward's Stanek. "Retailers are trying to differentiate from one another," he said during the Web seminar. Hamstra says that's an opportunity for supermarkets to wow customers by emphasizing in-store butchers or an extensive produce selection - things the local Wal-Mart might not have. Meanwhile, grocery stories are becoming more deft at retooling their strategies by cutting operational costs so they can slash prices, and by developing exclusive "private brand" products customers can't find elsewhere." SCREECHING HALT Oh for heavens sake shut up already. Publix lobbies long and hard to exclude Wal-Mart from potential cash-cow city's, and as a Florida based business is very successful in persuading the good old boys to thumb their collective noses at Wally World. Wal-Mart itself tried the being different approach and it failed, miserably, because... ...the bottom line is PRICE. Publix stores have on average a 35%, no typo, higher prices for their foodstuffs than Wal-Mart Supercenters, and all the multiple clerks in the world awaiting to carry your bags to the car isn't going to make up for the glaring difference. Upon moving to Florida I was appalled at the cost of a weeks groceries, and since Gainseville is anti-WM our only alternative was driving the 30 some odd miles to the nearest Supercenter, but guess what? We still came out way ahead. Add to that, the gas station on the Supercenter property was selling at an average 23 cents cheaper than any station in town meant a fill-up as well as a grocery-up. We save $4.14 in gasoline, plus approximately $32 in lower grocery prices, so do the math. $36 and change for the 60 mile roundtrip that costs $4 in gas. This of course impacts seniors and the disabled who cannot blithely to and fro themselves at will, and another reason I load a bus-full of them every time they wish to make the trip. Wal-Mart's policies be damned, and they ARE damned oh yes they are, those on a fixed income or the lower income homemakers have no choice but to shop out of town whenever possible. Publix and Wynn Dixie can parade their "something unique" approach 'till the cows come home and it won't make a bit of difference. Money talks. There are a plethora of boutique groceries catering to the hale and hearty, but nothing for the cash conscious shopper. The unique-approach is to keep the shareholders happy that something is being done to counteract the low prices of Wal-Mart, but until their stores actually lower THEIR prices as well, the trickle to Wally World will continue until it's a certifiable flood. If they truly wanted to compete they'd appeal to the bottom line, and anything else is flummery of the highest order. I despise Wal-Mart but who but myself am I hurting by spending so much more for the same thing. Yes, it's bad enough that the dumb white kids in Publix are brain dead while on the clock and merely going through the motions, and all but intolerable at Wal-Mart where the absolute dregs of humanity yawn in your face, but it isn't a perfect world and even the most curmudgeon among us learn to accept the pain of a foray to the bizzaro world that is Sam's brainchild. When not in the mood, we can bite the bullet and go elsewhere. Not everyone is as fortunate. And with the baby boomers nearing and already into retirement, the hoards of cranky old folk demanding lower prices is only going to grow until places like Publix and Wynn Dixie implode. And maybe, just maybe, all of those phone calls and letters and emails to Wal-Mart Corporate might even be paid attention to, and at least SOME of the stores might try hiring suitable human beings to man the battlements.
Free Wayne Webring
For those of you who've noticed, scrolling to the bottom of the page will eventually bring you to the Free Wayne Webring link. As an inveterate solo artist I am by nature disinclined to, as Groucho once professed, join any club that would have me as a member. But the strength in numbers jazz rings true enough for me to have, with admitted hesitation, groupified this blog and I hope for the better. The following is a statement found at the FWW page, and something that should be near and dear to all men of good will. I believe in it with every fiber of my being, and if you do too, then welcome.
Free Wayne Webring Inclusion Statement:
We support the right of all peaceable people to keep and bear arms. Your age, race, sex, religion, political party, sexual orientation, or national origin are of no concern to us. Anyone who requires you to disarm is not your friend, and not our friend. Only when all peaceable citizens can freely exercise their inalienable right to self defense, and their right to keep and bear arms, will we attain the ultimate safeguard for our mutual protection, as individuals, as members of a community, and as citizens of the Republic. The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness extends to all human beings, and all who support the right to keep and bear arms are welcome here, period.
Modern American Dictionary Of Firearm Laws And Procedures, Sunday Addition
Waiting Period. The time between one's desire/need to purchase a firearm and the time one is permitted to physically acquire said firearm. In criminal circles, often referred to as the "kill the bitch before she can go pick up her fucking gun!" period. The number of innocent people who have been assaulted and/or killed while awaiting the delivery of a means of protection is not inconsiderable.
Open Availability Of Concealed Carry Names And Addresses. Can't find the miserable *unt that left you and went and hid? Not a problem. In most liberal venues, all one need do is access the publically available list of concealed permit holders, and it's all over 'cept for the raping and killing. An invaluable tool for disgruntled spouses and lovers desperately seeking their Susan.
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Mouseguns At War
"The two men involved in a shootout southeast of Bozeman Wednesday each fired at the other three times with a small-caliber handgun.
Both were hit in the chest, although the hospitalized man was also hit in the face and hand, according to documents filed late Thursday in Justice Court.
The hunt for one of the men, Chris William Wagner, 33, continued Friday.
"Basically, all we're going to be doing now is contacting hospitals and doctors at medical clinics, hoping we can track him down," Gallatin County Sheriff Jim Cashell said. "Eventually, we're going to find him someplace."
It is unknown whether Wagner has a vehicle, but he has likely gone to a place where he has friends, Cashell said. Other leads, which couldn't be discussed, are being followed.
"I don't think he's in the area," Cashell said.
The other man, Michael Peters, 33, of Bozeman, remained in Bozeman Deaconess Hospital in fair condition, recovering from his gunshot wounds.
Peters was driving his pickup truck away from the home he shares with his father on 23 Gardner Park Drive Wednesday when Wagner "flagged him down," according to court records.
Peters stopped. Wagner approached the driver's side of the truck, pointed what looked like a .22-caliber handgun at Peters and said, "All right buddy, scoot over," according to court records.
Instead, Peters pulled an automatic, .32-caliber Kel-Tec handgun from his right pocket, jumped out of the truck and fired three shots at Wagner, hitting him in the chest, he told detectives.
Then Peters' gun jammed.
When Peters' pistol quit firing, Wagner shot back three times, hitting Peters in the chest, left hand and right cheek.
Wagner then ran off into the woods along the Sourdough Trail.
Peters' dad, Bozeman psychiatrist John Peters, called 911. His son, who has a permit to carry a concealed weapon, waited inside the house until police arrived.
When a sheriff's sergeant arrived, he found two guns, a .22-caliber rifle and a black semiautomatic pistol, in the home near Peters, the sergeant told detectives. Peters had blood on his lip, finger and clothes.
Peters, a massage therapist and firefighter, was taken to the hospital. Doctors operated to repair his wounded left hand on Friday and he remained in fair condition, his close friend said.
During an interview at the emergency room, Peters told a detective that the attack likely had something to do with his ex-girlfriend, who had also dated Wagner.
Four days before the shootout, Peters had told the ex-girlfriend that a suspicious man had been to his house. He believed it was Wagner, according to court records.
The ex-girlfriend then e-mailed Peters a picture of Wagner.
One person who knows a little bit about Wagner is Mineral County, Colo., Sheriff Fred Hosselkus.
From 2002 to 2005, Wagner lived off and on in Creede and South Fork, Colo., in nearby Rio Grande County, Hosselkus said Friday in a phone interview. Wagner's father lives in Denver and his grandfather in South Fork.
Wagner worked at Wolf Creek ski area and took odd jobs as a mechanic and carpenter, Rio Grande County Sheriff Brian Norton said.
"He was a pretty quiet person," Hosselkus said. "He didn't really get out in public a whole lot."
But Wagner is wanted in Creede on first-degree assault and domestic-violence charges for beating the ex-girlfriend in October 2005, causing severe brain injuries. He later escaped from house arrest and fled the area.
Wagner was also charged with misdemeanor crimes in Rio Grande County, mostly traffic offenses, Norton said.
If found, Wagner will be charged with attempted deliberate homicide for the Bozeman shootout.
He is described as being 5-foot-10 and 165 pounds, with brown hair and brown or green eyes. He was last seen wearing a dark knit hat, glasses, dark ski pants, a green ski jacket and Sorel boots."
Then there's Jimmy C. who could hit a kite-string at 100 yards but was all but useless when the for-real bell sounded.
Okay, I'll shut up.
"Conservative" Summit
National Review is holding a big conservative summit next week. I'll be joining a "night owl session" on Friday with Kate O'Beirne, Kathryn Lopez,Laura Ingraham, and Mona Charen. The rest of the who's who list here.
Come join us! Sign up here.___________________________________________________
The full list includes the following:
Jeb Bush, Tony Snow, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, John Boehner, John Bolton, Robert Bork, Mike Huckabee, Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, Rich Lowry, John O’Sullivan, Kate O’Beirne, Mark Steyn, Laura Ingraham, Kathryn Lopez, Robert P. George , Maggie Gallagher, Ramesh Ponnuru, Ed Whelan, Marvin Olasky, James Woolsey, Jerry Taylor, Ward Connerly, Byron York, Jonah Goldberg, Rob Long, Pat Toomey, Ralph Reed, Ryan Sager, Mark Krikorian, Cliff May, Tamar Jacoby, Charles Murray, John Miller, Bill Kristol, Terence P. Jeffrey, Michael Steele, Abigail Thernstrom, Mona Charen, Ed Gillespie, Andrew McCarthy, Charles Kesler, Edwin J. Feulner, Michael Novak
No, don't ask me why it's girls-night-out on Friday. Any place where Laura Ingraham is speaking aloud is one place I will not be anywhere near without sufficient hearing protection, and it'd take more than a list of RINO's, save for a few genuine Republicans, to get me to D.C. where NONE of us can come heavy.
I guess they just don't get it. Enriching the coffers of the District of Columbia. Conservatives.
Boggles.
Dick Wants To Swiftboat Hillary
Dick Morris's Appeal: Persons on Republican mailing lists this week received an appeal for funds from Dick Morris, President Bill Clinton's political strategist in 1995-1996, asking for a contribution between $25 and $100 or more to finance a critical film documentary of Sen. Hillary Clinton. Signing the letter as "Former Clinton Adviser," Morris wrote: "If you liked how the Swift Boat Veterans turned the tide against John Kerry, you understand how a top Clinton aide can turn the tables and stop a Clinton-style liberal from becoming the next president of the United States." Morris's appeal was made through The Presidential Coalition, run by conservative activist Dave Bossie. The letter described Morris as dedicated to electing presidents like Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. Since 1996, Morris has been an author, columnist and television commentator." Timing, timing, timing. If Dick makes his docuhagma and releases it, say, before the Democrat primaries, then at the very least it'll be s fun show. I'm in for a donation.
Not Even Close To A Cooked Goose
TALLAHASSEE, Florida 
Tough Duck Stays Alive for 2 Days in Refrigerator After Being Shot
"Wildlife officials said the feathered Lazarus had been shot by a hunter and put into his refrigerator for two days. That's when the hunter's wife opened the door and the duck lifted his head, giving her a scare.
The man's wife "was going to check on the refrigerator because it hadn't been working right and when she opened the door, it looked up at her," said Laina Whipple, a receptionist at Killearn Animal Hospital. "She freaked out and told the daughter to take it to the hospital right then and there."
The hospital's staff had the daughter take the 1-pound female ring-neck to Goose Creek Wildlife Sanctuary, where it has been treated since Tuesday for wounds to its wing and leg.
Sanctuary veterinarian David Hale said it has about a 75 percent chance of survival, but probably will not ever be well enough to be released back into the wild.
He said the duck, which has a low metabolism, could have survived in a big enough refrigerator, especially if the door was opened and closed several times."
Moral of the story: Use enough gun. If you're the duck, hope it's John Kerry doing the shooting.
College Basketball: Can Florida Be Beaten This Year
Playing as they CAN play, the Gators should finish the season 27-4, and the early line says, all things being equal and that means sustaining no serious injuries, Florida repeats as National Champions.
Stats are difficult to sift through as so many teams have different strengths of schedule, but the only team beating Florida this year is Florida.
And now that I've jinxed them feel free to blame me come upset time. Just remember who gave the Football Gators a chance when most were poo-poo'ing their abilities.
Ego trip over and out.
The HOAX Disgrace
He had a can't-lose case. "A touchdown!" said Nancy Grace. The faculty was in his face, egging him on to save a race...
Duke's Tenured Vigilantes
"Mike Nifong's handling of the case was clearly outrageous. But he would probably not have gone so far, indeed would not have dared to go so far, had he not been egged on by two other groups that rushed just as quickly to judge the three accused young men guilty of gross and racially motivated carnal violence. Despite the repeated attempts by the three to clear themselves, a substantial and vocal percentage--about one-fifth--of the Duke University arts and sciences faculty and nearly all of the mainstream print media in America quickly organized themselves into a hanging party. Throughout the spring of 2006 and indeed well into the late summer, Nifong had the nearly unanimous backing of this country's (and especially Duke's) intellectual elite as he explored his lurid theories of sexual predation and racist stonewalling.The metanarrative they came up with was three parts Mandingo and one part Josephine Baker: rich white plantation owners and their scions lusting after tawny-skinned beauties and concocting fantasies of their outsize sexual appetites so as to rape, abuse, and prostitute them with impunity. It mattered little that all three accused lacrosse players hailed from the Northeast, or that there have been few, if any, actual incidents of gang rapes of black women by wealthy white men during the last 40 years. Karla Holloway's online essay was replete with imagery derived from this lurid antebellum template. She described the accuser and her fellow stripper as "kneeling" in "service to" white male "presumption of privilege," and as "bodies available for taunt and tirade, whim and whisper" in "the subaltern spaces of university life and culture." On April 13, Wahneema Lubiano, a Duke literature professor, wrote in another online article, "I understand the impulse of those outraged and who see the alleged offenders as the exemplars of the upper end of the class hierarchy, the politically dominant race and ethnicity, the dominant gender, the dominant sexuality, and the dominant social group on campus."
And, how's THIS for a sharp stick in the eye...
"Thavolia Glymph, AAAS (Assistant Professor of African Studies), said she is disappointed with the community because "since the DNA results were returned Monday, we [have been] moving backwards."
She said the results have given the community a false sense of vindication and that students now feel issues such as race and gender no longer need to be examined."
Translation: The accuser lied. There was no rape. The team was dimissed and forbidden to participate in athletic events. 3 men were vilified, their reputations impugned, lifetime expulsions threatened...but the REAL crime...
Is the fact that she and her ilk can no longer use the HOAX to slander all white people on the face of the earth.
The real victims were of course the men falsely accused. NOT ONE MENTION of this is made by ANY of the GANG of 88.
Sickening racists, all. Instead of apologizing to the ones they smeared, they are sorry, SORRY, that no rape occurred.
Reminds me of the Anti's that wait patiently for someone to die from a criminals bullet so that they might use the demise of their fellow man as a stepping stone to further an agenda.
Oh, and I know this will come as a great shock to you all, but Thavolia Glymph also believes that the Jews are evil, and the Palestinians kept under their thumb in apartheid.
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But yes, kids, there's more...
"If faculty members don't think the Campus Culture Initiative is worth their time, why should students?
...Professor of English Karla Holloway's resignation as co-chair of the CCI's race subcommittee is another blow to an initiative that has drawn little interest from undergraduates-except perhaps for some of the DSG types.
Holloway's resignation was symbolic: she was angry that Duke had offered to reinstate indicted former lacrosse players Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, and wrote in her resignation letter that she "could no longer work in good faith with this breach of common trust."
What? She was angered that Duke wishes to atone for an egregious mistake? Ruined her whole day because the men were found to be NOT GUILTY?
Can you even BEGIN to imagine if the accuser was white, and the men black, but exonerated? There'd be liberal bells ringing from coast to coast.
Revenoo-ers Surround New Hampshire Home
"The New Hampshire man who is holed up with armed supporters in his fortress-like house after being convicted of tax evasion says he just wants everyone to pay attention and obey the law.
"I want people to realize that there is no such thing as an obligation to pay income tax," said Edward Brown. "It has nothing to do with the Constitution."
A jury ruled Thursday that Brown and his wife, Elaine, plotted to hide their income and avoid taxes on Elaine Brown's income of $1.9 million between 1996 and 2003. Over 10 years, they also used $215,890 of postal money orders broken into increments just below the reporting threshold to pay for their hilltop compound and for Elaine Brown's dental offices.
After the pair were convicted Thursday on 17 felony counts, Brown and a group of supporters sequestered themselves in his home in Plainfield, N.H.
They say there is no law stating that they must pay tax on Elaine Brown's income. "We told them, 'Show us the law and we'll pay immediately,'" Edward Brown said in an interview Friday.
Brown said the tax-evasion charges were retaliation for a suit he filed against Judge Steven McAuliffe, Assistant U.S. Attorney William Morse and others after authorities raided his wife's dental practice last year.
"They had snipers with state troopers, they had 20 armed officers," said Brown. "What did they need all of them for? Just to download a computer?
Ah, Ed? Modern law enforcement is all about two things. The collection of fines and the collection of really big fines. Expect one officer plus backup for every $10,000 they want from you. Now let's return to PAY US OR DIE, how the government learned from the Mafia.
"They've ruined my life. My wife is a basket case."
On Thursday, Morse ordered Elaine Brown not to join her husband at their home as a condition of her release until sentencing. She is now living in Worcester, Mass., with her son. The couple has been married since 1985.
"Some people are drawn to the anti-tax movements and the false representation that there is no legal requirement to file and pay taxes. Today's verdict clearly reaffirms the repeated rejection of these arguments in the courts," IRS Special Agent Douglas Bricker said in a statement after Thursday's court ruling.
When asked how many people were with him, Brown declined to cite a number and replied he was with friends and family.
But he added that authorities cannot risk removing him forcibly because "there are so many people involved. I have little old grandmothers staying with me."
Brown described his property as "self-contained" with generators, food, water, and Internet access. He said that supporters are not fearful of coming or going from the premises.
He said Gary DiMartino, a negotiator for the U.S. Marshals, "has been a gentleman," and that neither he nor his supporters have been abused or threatened.
"DiMartino has been honorable and is a negotiator," Brown added. "He's just rather confused after 25 years of brainwashing," he said, referring to the legality of income taxes.
"I told him [DiMartino] you got to do your job. ..."I have been around police all my life. They're my brothers."
Brown said he feels it's his obligation to protect and defend the Constitution by resisting unjust laws.
"We do this for our nation," he said. "I'm a man of honor. I can never lie, cheat, or steal, ever."
Earlier, Brown was quoted by the Associated Press as saying he expected federal agents to swarm his property soon.
"Live free or die," he said, quoting New Hampshire's Revolutionary War hero Gen. John Stark and the state's motto. "What else can I say?"
Bernie Bastian, a Brown supporter who said he was carrying two guns, said he and about two-dozen supporters would stand with their friend."
Aside from the fact that the above sentence could have used another "said", and HAD to include a firearm or two SOMEWHERE, it isn't all THAT poorly written.
And no, this is not another WACO in the making. Mr. Janet Reno is no longer empowered to send armed men to kill innocent women and children, and Mr. Bill Clinton isn't in office so there's nobody around that hates religion and guns enough to murder those who do not.
Vancouver Pig Farmer Accused of Murdering Six Women
The Vancouver Vampire. When the trial ends, look for a tell-all novel that will be the most grizzly of reads imaginable. "...Few of the details of the evidence have been made public in Canada, where strict publication bans have muffled preliminary hearings. But what has come to light is grim enough: butchered body parts discovered in a freezer; a woodchipper, confiscated by police, where the women's bodies were believed to have been disposed of; and the public health warning that the pigs believed to have been fed on human remains were then slaughtered and put into the human food chain — along with, perhaps, human meat itself. At jury selection, the judge warned potential jurors that what they would hear would be "like a horror movie". But this time, he told them, they would not be able to switch it off. But the friends and families of the murdered and missing women are those who are likely to suffer the most trauma. Evidence is expected to take as long as a year to hear. Yet most plan to be there, to find out what happened to their daughters, sisters and friends, and how it was allowed to happen. The women of the Downtown Eastside disappeared gradually, over the course of 20 years, unseen and apparently uncared for by those meant to protect them. The Downtown Eastside is the poorest postcode in Canada, where life expectancy is less than 40. Its seedy bars and dank doorways shelter the huddled forms of vagrants and junkies, creating a filthy foreground to the gleaming skyscrapers less than a mile up the road. It has the highest rate of HIV infection in North America and is the only place in the developed world where infected women outnumber men. Social workers called the prostitutes here "survival sex workers". They are selling themselves merely to stay alive. Rebecca Guno was the first to disappear, in 1983, but no one knew then that she was only the first. Fourteen years later, when Ms Frey's call never came, Mrs Frey grew worried. When Ms Frey had still not surfaced after four months and local police said that they could not help, Mrs Frey and her sister, Joyce LaChance, travelled to the Downtown Eastside to report Ms Frey missing there. "The police there, they didn't seem concerned. They said she was an adult and she'd probably taken off somewhere," Mrs Frey recalls. "They made us think we were the only ones looking for someone missing." Infuriated by the police refusal to look for her daughter, Mrs Frey and her sister began their own search. They began to meet other people, like them, looking for their missing loved ones. One woman, searching for her sister, had been refused a missing person report and told to "go put her picture up at the needle exchange". A man, Wayne Leng, was searching for his friend Sarah de Vries, last seen on a street corner on April 14, 1998, seven months after Marnie's last call. Ms de Vries's theory of what lay behind the disappearances was contained in a journal she left at Mr Leng's. "Am I next? Is he watching me now?" she wrote. "Stalking me like a predator and its prey? Waiting, waiting for some perfect spot, time or my stupid mistake?" The more Mrs Frey spoke to the street girls, the more she became convinced that Ms de Vries's theory of a serial killer was right. "The girls told me, ‘There's this guy who picks up girls in vans and takes them to a farm and they don't come back. He's got a woodchipper'," she said. "Then they'd run away scared and wouldn't say any more." Mrs LaChance suddenly thought of the farm near her home where the Pickton brothers lived. She knew a friend of theirs and had babysat for her children. The sisters relayed their suspicions to the police, who were adamant that there was no serial killer. Family members lobbied the press and The Vancouver Sun began its own investigation. Mr Leng set up a hotline for tips about the killings and received a call from one Bill Hiscox, a former employee on the farm. He knew a woman who had been inside the trailer where Mr Pickton lived, behind the main farmhouse where his brother, Dave, lived. "She doesn't want to get involved. She's kind of scared about it," he said in the call that Mr Leng taped. "But she told me, ‘Billy, you wouldn't believe the IDs and s*** in that trailer. There's women's clothes out there, there's purses. You know, what's that guy doing? It's, like, really weird'." Mr Hiscox also noted a case known to the police, when Wendy Lynn Eistetter, a prostitute, had fled the pig farm, handcuffed, bleeding from the stomach, claiming that Robert Pickton had stabbed her. Mr Pickton, who was also wounded in the incident, was charged with attempted murder but Ms Eistetter balked at testifying and the charges were dropped. Mr Leng handed the tape to police but heard no more about it. The name Pickton would not come up again until 2002, four years later, when police visited the farm with an unrelated warrant to search for an unlicensed gun. They stumbled upon an asthma inhaler prescribed in the name of one of the missing women and the ID cards of several others. They returned with another warrant and began searching the property, beginning with the slaughterhouse. In the freezers, they unearthed two five-gallon tubs. Inside were severed hands and feet, and the heads of two women among the most recently reported missing. Both were sawn in half like the carcasses of the slaughtered pigs. One, Serena Abbotsway, had gone missing only a few months after leading a protest march against police inaction over the killings. Much of the evidence may have been devoured long before police set foot on the farm. "It is believed that there is a possibility that human remains were fed to pigs but the risk of disease to those who may have had contact with the meat was negligible," a 2003 police health study said. "The psychological effects may be worse than the physical." Five years and 26 murder charges later, the cases of 39 missing women remain open. Investigators continue to sift through the samples taken from the Pickton farm in search of any trace of those still missing. An internal police inquiry has been ordered but the families are still clamouring for a public one. "If this was a rich community in the West End, all hell would have broken loose," Rick Frey said. Down on the seedy streets of the Downtown Eastside, a serial killer might no longer be stalking the women but the violence continues unabated. In 2005 Donald Bakker was convicted of the torture and sexual assault of nearly 60 prostitutes, whose ordeals he had taped. None reported the abuse to the police. More than 20 men have been convicted of killing one prostitute each in the Downtown Eastside since 1980."
The Mouse That Roared
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton Announces White House Bid
"The former first lady acknowledged her plans to take the first step of forming a presidential exploratory committee.
"I'm not just starting a campaign, though. I'm beginning a conversation with you, with America," Clinton says in her web message. She announced that she will be holding live, on-line video conferences with Americans starting Monday.
"Let's talk about how to bring the right end to the war in Iraq, and to restore respect for America around the world," she said."
Someone should try to restore respect for America throughout America, hag-thing, because $@!$#&!$ the world, ya know? No matter. Neither you nor Hussein gets past the vetting without collateral damage at the very least, and won't it be grand to re-live the White House scandals.
Pictured: Hillary Rodham before and after makeup.
We Get Letters
40 Reasons to Ban Guns
1. Banning guns works, which is why New York, DC, Detroit & Chicago cops need guns.
2. Washington DC's low murder rate of 69 per 100,000 is due to strict gun control, and Indianapolis' high murder rate of 9 per 100,000 is due to the lack of gun control.
3. Statistics showing high murder rates justify gun control but statistics showing increasing murder rates after gun control are "just statistics."
4. The Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban, both of which went into effect in 1994 are responsible for the decrease in violent crime rates, which have been declining since 1991.
5. We must get rid of guns because a deranged lunatic may go on a shooting spree at any time and anyone who would own a gun out of fear of such a lunatic is paranoid.
6. The more helpless you are the safer you are from criminals.
7. An intruder will be incapacitated by tear gas or oven spray, but if shot with a .357 Magnum will get angry and kill you.
8. A woman raped and strangled is morally superior to a woman with a smoking gun and a dead rapist at her feet.
9. When confronted by violent criminals, you should "put up no defense - give them what they want, or run" (Handgun Control Inc. Chairman Pete Shields, Guns Don't Die - People Do, 1981, p. 125).
10. The New England Journal of Medicine is filled with expert advice about guns; just like Guns & Ammo has some excellent treatises on heart surgery.
11. One should consult an automotive engineer for safer seat belts, a civil engineer for a better bridge, a surgeon for internal medicine, a computer programmer for hard drive problems, and Sarah Brady for firearms expertise.
12. The 2nd Amendment, ratified in 1787, refers to the National Guard, which was created 130 years later, in 1917.
13. The National Guard, federally funded, with bases on federal land, using federally-owned weapons, vehicles, buildings and uniforms, punishing trespassers under federal law, is a "state" militia.
14. These phrases: "right of the people peaceably to assemble," "right of the people to be secure in their homes," "enumerations herein of certain rights shall not be construed to disparage others retained by the people," and "The powers not delegated herein are reserved to the states respectively, and to the people" all refer to individuals, but "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" refers to the state.
15. "The Constitution is strong and will never change." But we should ban and seize all guns thereby violating the 2nd, 4th, and 5th Amendments to that Constitution.
16. Rifles and handguns aren't necessary to national defense! Of course, the army has hundreds of thousands of them.
17. Private citizens shouldn't have handguns, because they aren't "military weapons'', but private citizens shouldn't have "assault rifles'', because they are military weapons.
18. In spite of waiting periods, background checks, fingerprinting, government forms, etc., guns today are too readily available, which is responsible for recent school shootings. In the 1940's, 1950's and 1960's, anyone could buy guns at hardware stores, army surplus stores, gas stations, variety stores, Sears mail order, no waiting, no background check, no fingerprints, no government forms and there were no school shootings.
19. The NRA's attempt to run a "don't touch" campaign about kids handling guns is propaganda, but the anti-gun lobby's attempt to run a "don't touch" campaign is responsible social activity.
20. Guns are so complex that special training is necessary to use them properly, and so simple to use that they make murder easy.
21. A handgun, with up to 4 controls, is far too complex for the typical adult to learn to use, as opposed to an automobile that only has 20.
22. Women are just as intelligent and capable as men but a woman with a gun is "an accident waiting to happen" and gun makers' advertisements aimed at women are "preying on their fears."
23. Ordinary people in the presence of guns turn into slaughtering butchers but revert to normal when the weapon is removed.
24. Guns cause violence, which is why there are so many mass killings at gun shows.
25. A majority of the population supports gun control, just like a majority of the population supported owning slaves.
26. Any self-loading small arm can legitimately be considered to be a "weapon of mass destruction" or an "assault weapon."
27. Most people can't be trusted, so we should have laws against guns, which most people will abide by because they can be trusted.
28. The right of Internet pornographers to exist cannot be questioned because it is constitutionally protected by the Bill of Rights, but the use of handguns for self defense is not really protected by the Bill of Rights.
29. Free speech entitles one to own newspapers, transmitters, computers, and typewriters, but self- defense only justifies bare hands.
30. The ACLU is good because it uncompromisingly defends certain parts of the Constitution, and the NRA is bad, because it defends other parts of the Constitution.
31. Charlton Heston, a movie actor as president of the NRA is a cheap lunatic who should be ignored, but Michael Douglas, a movie actor as a representative of Handgun Control, Inc. is an ambassador for peace who is entitled to an audience at the UN arms control summit.
32. Police operate with backup within groups, which is why they need larger capacity pistol magazines than do "civilians" who must face criminals alone and therefore need less ammunition.
33. We should ban "Saturday Night Specials" and other inexpensive guns because it's not fair that poor people have access to guns too.
34. Police officers have some special Jedi-like mastery over handguns that private citizens can never hope to obtain.
35. Private citizens don't need a gun for self- protection because the police are there to protect them even though the Supreme Court says the police are not responsible for their protection.
36. Citizens don't need to carry a gun for personal protection but police chiefs, who are desk-bound administrators who work in a building filled with cops, need a gun.
37. "Assault weapons" have no purpose other than to kill large numbers of people. The police need assault weapons. You do not.
38. When Microsoft pressures its distributors to give Microsoft preferential promotion, that's bad; but when the Federal government pressures cities to buy guns only from Smith & Wesson, that's good.
39. Trigger locks do not interfere with the ability to use a gun for defensive purposes, which is why you see police officers with one on their duty weapon.
40. Handgun Control, Inc., says they want to "keep guns out of the wrong hands." Guess what? You have the wrong hands.
And to cap it off, the next time you hear of a police officer saying that he "wants to go home to my family at night," ask him, in a respectful manner because, we are after all, civilized men, why it is that he gets to have laws that permit him to do so, but not you.
Gimmicky Auto Pistol
"Why not a Glock in .45 GAP..."
Sure. It's your money. First, send an email to every mainstream ammunition manufacturer who makes a GAP round. Ask them what they consider the minimum barrel length for absolute, drop-dead, can't be denied expansion, from whatever line of hollowpoints in 230 grains strikes your fancy.
I did. Every answer was the same. 4.5", but look for 5. Under that, and they recommend a 185 grain pill. Moseying along at 1050 fps. So for the low-cap G-38, the mid-range GAP, you'll have 8 rounds when you could be carrying a G-23 with 13, using the same weight bullet that exits the tube somewhat faster. Or, go with the full-sized G-37 that most folks find too large for CCW, and squeek out the 4.49" minimum while praying that the 10 rounds of 230's will open on impact, but lets face it, they've made you a little nervous so you'll be carrying the 185's anyway.
Short barrel .45's mean one thing. Speer short barrel ammunition. Guaranteed to blossom at mini-tube velocities. Leaving the usual Gold Dot .7" hole, when an HST in .40 flavor makes close to an inch.
So why were you wanting to carry a .45 again? When smaller calibers are making bigger ouchies?
Nothing wrong with the GAP, in any configuration, but your ammunition choices are limited so be honest and realize it's something you WANT, and not something you've intellectualized all the way through.
Modern weapons and modern munitions work amazingly well. We got along just fine without them, some of us anyway, but when having the edge means saving your life, some want EVERY edge they can muster. Even the .45 ACP was designed for a certain barrel-length because they are slowwwwwwww and need all the oomph possible in order to knock Billy Bad Guy off his pins. And you can't get a GAP in +P because the little cartridges are chockerblock, so remember to be careful of too slow.
If Federal, Winchester, and/or PMC made a 230 for short barrels, I'd have switched to the G-30 a long time ago. BUT...when used in longer tubes this technology tends to cause overexpansion and by that they mean BAD overexpansion, the kind that tears the round to pieces on impact due to the higher velocities. Until ALL of the manufacturers address this problem, and they will in due time because CCW is providing more and more customers each and every day, I'm sticking with the .40 caliber when lugging around a bottomfeeder.
Springer's Spaniel...
Yeah its an ugly dog.
It's amusing to note that Springfield has at least for a time stopped trying to knock-off Glock, and has instead turned to Hi-Point for design features.
The mini Springer. Not JUST an ergonomic disaster, but the new Rosie O'Donnell of handguns.
UPDATE
This just in. A local PD had a shoot-off using Glocks, Springer-Spaniels, and S&W Mostly Poor's.
Over the course of 3 days, deputies fired between 50-70 rounds from each pistol, and were all but unanimous in wishing to retain their G-22's. As is the case with everyone we've spoken with, the Springers in all models have longer trigger resets, more felt recoil, and are difficult to point shoot. Among other things. The M&P's were selected best overall by two of the 114 men and women doing the testing, and it is of interest to note that both were women. Springers were favored by 5 of the men, and disliked by all that were certified armorers*. None of this means a hill of beans compared to how a gun feels in YOUR hand, so who should care if you happen to like a weapon that is slower and less accurate. 99.999% of all citizens owning a gun will never fire it at anything more dangerous than a menacing sheet of paper.
Am soliciting volunteers for the 1st Annual Messenger I Ran Out Of Bullets And Hadda Throw The Fucking Thing, barbeque, where contestants will get pissass drunk and toss various unloaded firearms at different targets. Prizes are yet to be determined, but we'll certainly announce the model winner.
*Parts, parts parts. And familiarity with the current sidearm, of course, had a lot to do with it.
Smokin'
A Serious .357 magnum load.
Double-Tap is once again offering a woods-load. A 200 grain WFNGC doing 1200 fps from a 4" barrel, and this is close to the max for .357 ballistics for those who do not roll their own.
One of the enjoyable things about this pastime of ours, is that at any given time there are several trends happening all at once. Winchester offers a .44 magnum that propels a 210 grain bullet at 1250 fps from the same 4 inches of tube, while boutique's such as Double-Tap crank out .357's that nearly equal the old warhorse.
Also, they've reacquired enough of Speer's 158 grain Gold Dots to provide those effective hollowpoint rounds, the still popular tweener's for when 125 is too puny and 200 is best served to the likes of mountain cats. My hysterical email to them several months back was quickly responded to with the plea for patience, and they've made good on their word.
Now if McNett would only listen to me and get his hands on some of Federal's HST bullets, I would place an order for caseloads to feed my .40's with 180 grains of bodacious hellfire to the tune of 1150 or so fps from a G-23, and punching 1" holes with those darlings would do my heart a world of good.
I can dream, so what.
Friday, January 19, 2007
'I think the law needs changing so all airguns are locked up, full stop.
"A MUM whose son was killed in an airgun accident is continuing her campaign for tighter laws on the weapons.
North Wales Police have revealed more than three-quarters of all airgun offences in the region are committed by children.
And 64% of people injured by airguns or BB guns in North Wales are under the age of 17.
Eight years ago, George Atkinson, 13, died after being shot in the head with an air rifle while playing at his aunt's home near Wrexham.
His mum Jayne, 46, has since campaigned tirelessly for tighter gun control. She is backing North Wales Police's plea for a crackdown."
Yes. The airgun menace. Irresponsible parents fail to teach and supervise their children, so instead of "cracking down" on simpletons it's time to punish the many for the stupidity of the few. And the absolute gall of the dead boys' "Mum" who of course takes NO responsibility in the matter, but knows that SOMETHING is amiss and wants the world protected from idiots such as herself. HER son died, and SHE was the weapon of his demise, but try explaining that to the likes of her.
Boggles. Simply boggles.
Thanks to War On Guns
Tribute To Our Fallen
I've had something in my eye so its harder for me to type than usual. Here's the background, from a CNN article:
CNN) -- President Bush announced on Friday that the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration, will be awarded posthumously to Marine Cpl. Jason Dunham.
In April 2004, Dunham was leading a patrol in an Iraqi town near the Syrian border when the patrol stopped a convoy of cars leaving the scene of an attack on a Marine convoy, according to military and media accounts of the action.
An occupant of one of the cars attacked Dunham and the two fought hand to hand. As they fought, Dunham yelled to fellow Marines, "No, no watch his hand." The attacker then dropped a grenade and Dunham hurled himself on top of it, using his helmet to try to blunt the force of the blast.
Still, Dunham was critically wounded in the explosion and died eight days later at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.
"As long as we have Marines like Corporal Dunham, America will never fear for her liberty," Bush said Friday as he announced that Dunham would receive the award. Bush spoke at the dedication of the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Virginia. (Watch announcement of award at museum -- 1:27)
"His was a selfless act of courage to save his fellow Marines," Sgt. Maj. Daniel A. Huff of the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, was quoted as saying in Marine Corps News that April.
"He knew what he was doing," Lance Cpl. Jason A. Sanders, 21, of McAllester, Oklahoma, who was in Dunham's company, was quoted as saying by Marine Corps News. "He wanted to save Marines' lives from that grenade."
In various media accounts, fellow Marines told how Dunham had extended his enlistment shortly before he died so he could help his comrades.
"We told him he was crazy for coming out here," Lance Cpl. Mark E. Dean, 22, from Owasso, Oklahoma, said in Marine Corps News. "He decided to come out here and fight with us. All he wanted was to make sure his boys made it back home."
Thanks, Cookie. Semper Fi.
Testing...
Another reason to hate technology when it suits me to. If anyone has been trying to comment and is being informed that he or she is banned, well, I don't even know HOW to do such a thing. Let me see if I can find what's going on, and failing that I'll ask Lisa for help.
UPDATEDNESS
Seems to be working but I can't promise anything but diligence. It is my fault for not realizing that the times when Haloscan prevented me from accessing or commenting most likely meant that others were experiencing difficulties as well. I'll pay more attention.
More Disgusting Pics Of NBA Cheerleaders
Stay away from this link because there are lots more pictures there.
Now Here's Something You Don't See Everyday...Jungle Girl That Had One Helluva Beautician...
Cambodian 'Jungle Woman' Reveals Little After Discovery
OYADAO, Cambodia — "A woman who emerged from the jungles of Cambodia a week ago, burbling, grunting, and walking like an animal, has revealed little about the last two decades allegedly spent in the wilderness, even to the family that claims her as their long-lost daughter.
Dubbed "jungle woman" by residents of this remote northeastern district, the woman is unable to speak intelligible words and spends her days sitting or lying on the floor, sleeping or staring glassy-eyed at the scores of visitors who come to gawk at her in the ramshackle house that has become her home.
A local policeman, Sal Lou, 45, has claimed the woman as his daughter, Rochom P'ngien, who went missing in 1988 at the age of eight while herding buffalo, but some of the villagers are not so sure.
She was discovered earlier this month by a villager who had gone into hiding hoping to catch the thief stealing food from his lunch box, local police said.
After the shock of seeing a naked girl sneak out of the jungle, he called in a few other villagers to help him catch her, they said.
Word of the capture quickly spread, and Sal Lou, as the village policeman, was summoned.
Despite being welcomed into Sal Lou's extended family — 12 people living in a tiny, wooden house — there is concern that her heart remains in the jungle. While on Friday she appeared content, dressed in a long-sleeved, white turtleneck blouse and a blue, floral-print skirt, Sal Lou said the previous day she had stripped off all her clothes and appeared ready to return to the wild. He said the family managed to restrain her and took her to a nearby Buddhist temple where a monk blessed her with holy water, in an attempt to expel any evil spirits that may have possessed her. For members of the Pnong minority — who traditionally are animists who revere nature over organized religion — the move was unusual. "We worship no religion, but we took the advice of some elderly Khmer (ethnic Cambodian) people to have the holy water blessing done to chase the evil souls from her body," Sal Lou said, his daughter by his side, as motionless as a stone. Others in the village are not so welcoming. "I swear to you ... that when she looked at me, I dared not look at her and I had to turn my face away," neighbor, Cheat Ki said. "I was so scared, scared of evil spirits that might have come with her. At night before we went to sleep, after seeing her, I told my children to lock the door for fear that some evil might come and strangle us." Cheat Ki said that some of the villagers were already questioning some of the details of the girl's discovery, saying she was found with hair already trimmed short. "If she was in the jungle for 19 years, why was her hair short?" wondered the 39-year-old shopkeeper. "It should have been long unless someone cut her hair for her in the jungle." Segue off the beaten path...
So how weird was it that HE found his long-lost daughter like that.
CACHE OF EVIL GUNS...
Story found by yours truly in the daily peruse of the NY Post, and also posted over at War On Guns.
January 19, 2007 -- "A Brooklyn man was arrested yesterday after cops found a cache of guns in his home, authorities said.
An anonymous tipster led the police to the home of Nick Bianchino, 45, on Homecrest Avenue in Sheepshead Bay, where they found an assortment of machine guns, pistols and revolvers.
Cops also recovered a large stash of ammunition, manuals on how to use the guns and even telephone books riddled with bullet holes that police said Bianchino used for target practice.
"These are 15 guns that would have been out on the streets if they weren't recovered. This could have led to the death of someone," said Capt. Vincent Stella of the 61st Precinct.
The tipster alerted cops about Bianchino through an anonymous program called "Gun Stop," in which people can confidentially inform the department about illegal guns and receive a reward of $1,000.
Charges are pending against Bianchino."
It'd be interesting to learn what these machine guns actually were, and heavens forbid, but the guy had MANUALS, too! Sweet christ on a crutch but were I to own guns there'd be a lot more than 15 around the house, and yes, MANUALS, and probably even a holy telephone book or two. The NYC phone books are fricking huge and perfect to practice on.
And how's about them there "anonymous" tipsters, eh? Cops wanting to check out someone's home need but call the tip hotline, then go make the bust. A friend or family member does the actual dime-dropping, gets the cash, so it's win-win. Beg pardon? Do they split it?
Of course.
Note to self: If but one of the Founders were to be cloned and/or somehow resurrected, there'd be a new revolution in about a week. The socialists have taken far more from us than the Brits ever did, so how cool would it be to follow a man with guts and TAKE IT ALL THE FRIG BACK.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
La Hoax Part II
"DURHAM, N.C. North Carolina's N-Double-A-C-P chapter plans to keep watch on the investigation into allegations an exotic dancer was raped and beaten at a party hosted by members of Duke University's lacrosse team.
Sam Hummel, Duke University Environmental Sustainability Coordinator, is the one claimed to be responsible for distributing the original HANG 'EM HIGH Duke Ad, that you may access here.
This raises the question from whence Sammy created the weepy paean to political correctness. On the campus copier machine? Hell, you know he didn't pay for the work at Kinko's.
This is one lawsuit in the making I am going stark raving giggle over. To toss the world's problems at the feet of innocent men who's only crime was to be white, is unconscionable given the circumstances. If they weren't accused of atrocious felonies, it'd merely be a loon's finest hour, but such prejudicial claptrap is heinous considering the legal ramifications awaiting the LaCrosse players who were offered as sacrificial lambs to the great god Moonbattus.
Environmental Sustainability Coordinator?
La Hoax Part II Update
The NAACP is also asking for a gag order, and but of course they would. After being one of the cheerleaders that perpetuated the HOAX, they now want the whole mess to go poof and fade away into obscurity. Seems that they DON'T wish to be remembered for having anything to do with the Tawana Brawley 2006-2007 Look-Alike Contest.
Disgusting
Hooters Best Damn Dream Girls. Only 4 that can really be called blondes, and NO redheads?
If this is the best they got they got jack.
Ode To A Moonbat
Art Buchwald. 1925-2007. Never met a loon he didn't like. Or a gun he didn't hate.
You may find some of his more recent agglomerations of dysentery here.
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Wayne Fincher Update:
Wendy Johnson, assistant U. S. attorney, said the investigation of the Militia of Washington County continues.Wonder which Constitution Wendy is looking at? For real, now; think these kids go to law school with visions of destroying the country as we know it, dancing in their heads? It takes a crook to catch a crook, so I'm all for the legal profession, but whatever happened to the laudable views espoused in The Paper Chase?
“[Fincher and his supporters ] are good people, and they believe very strongly,” Johnson said. “Those beliefs are just contrary to the laws of the land.”
Cracks Found In Obama's Armor...
"Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama may have a lot of explaining to do."
"He voted against requiring medical care for aborted fetuses who survive. He supported allowing retired police officers to carry concealed weapons, but opposed allowing people to use banned handguns to defend against intruders in their homes. And the list of sensitive topics goes on."
"With only a slim, two-year record in the U.S. Senate, Obama doesn't have many controversial congressional votes which political opponents can frame into attack ads. But his eight years as an Illinois state senator are sprinkled with potentially explosive land mines, such as his abortion and gun control votes." ...
Unfortunately, the link to the full story has been made inoperative by The Star Tribune of Wyoming. Clicking the link then scrolling about half-way down brings you to the above, but the parent link is down. No matter. If it's true then it'll soon be plastered over the web, and we'll have to wait a little longer for Saint Barack to come tumbling down.
I mean, it figures though, doesn't it? That he'd be in FAVOR of killing babies and AGAINST the 2nd Amendment?
La Hoax
I've been making a concerted effort to absorb the Duke LaCross Hoax with an active mind. Not an open one but of course because sans filtration, minds can get as cluttered with more debris than a liberal's Protest-Bush-Pins sock drawer. Received an email informing me that the Duke African American Studies program had 15 faculty members with 33 students registered for the class, and not even this was goad enough to poke fun at so august an institution of low-as-you- can-go learning.
The Gang Of 88 profs who leaped at the opportunity to burn whitey were only doing what loonatic teachers do for giggles and grins. The black community that overwhelmingly voted for Nifong (95%) once they smelled blood in the water and just the right man to twist the knife, were only doing what many black communities do. Nifong himself was only taking a page from the Racist Elections For Dummies how-to manual, and the liberal press, well, say no more. The police? The lead detective took NO notes but every time a new question concerning the legitimacy of this case reared it's ugly head he speed-dialed the accuser and asked, "um, this is what you said before, right?" And forget the fact that she couldn't pick any of the men out of a photo lineup, then at long last managed to do so when only THEIR pictures were shown to her.
No. The travesty took shape when all of the above stars were in perfect alignment, and seriously now, what are the chances of that? No evidence, an accuser who changed her story each and every time one of the "facts" didn't fit, a DA that rushed to the liberal media for help whenever the defense council raised a discrepancy, and a far-left college that pulled the rug out from under the accused without so much as a trial.
If the cops believed every criminal looking to turn an unproductive evening of attempted felonies into fortune and fame...and yes, a whore like it or not IS a criminal...the justice system would grind to a complete halt.
But these cops did, and these teachers did, and the media outlets did, and this DA did. Headlines of WHITE BOYS RAPE POOR BLACK GIRL had the Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons scurrying for bully pulpits to pronounce I HAVE A SCHEME, but Al ain't nobodys dummy since he was Tawana'd once before, so the black posse bid its time making hangmens knots while awaiting the smoking gun that remained uncocked.
Now, usually the yellowstream media would be inundating shrinks the country, if not world, over, looking for a diagnosis to proclaim these poor boys to have been irrevocably injured beyond repair by this HOAX. But the crestfallen lads and lasses of primetime can't even do that, because, as we all know, so what if THEY aren't guilty, PLENTY of rich white folks ARE, and rich white folks don't need no help or pity and even if they did they can affored to buy all they want.
Ann Coulter has an updated take of her own entitled:
THE STRIPPER HAS NO CLOTHES
Phony Psychic Tried To Cash In...
"Montel Williams' psychic pal Sylvia Browne told the family of missing Shawn Hornbeck he was dead shortly after the Missouri boy vanished - and later allegedly offered to help locate his body for $700 per half hour. The popular TV clairvoyant appeared on the "Montel Williams Show" in February 2003, four months after Shawn disappeared, and told Pam and Craig Akers she believed their son was "no longer with us." She also advised that his body could be found in a wooded area 20 miles from their Richwoods, Mo., home, near two large jagged boulders. Shawn, now 15, was found alive and well last Friday, living just miles away with a man now charged with snatching the boy when he was 11. Browne's "vision" of his death caused search teams to redirect their efforts and drew dozens of calls from the public who believed they lived near the woods matching Browne's descriptions. The family also claims the psychic then tried to cash in, which Browne vigorously denies. "She called Pam and Craig about one month after the show and pretty much offered her services to continue their discussion for a fee," said Wayne Evans, a spokesman for the Shawn Hornbeck Foundation. "Pam was that desperate that if she had had $700 in her bank account she would have put it on the table. We are talking about a mother who would have sold her soul to have her boy back." "Everybody was angry," he added. "Sylvia Browne's name was never brought up again until Shawn was found. He's home now, and that's all that matters." Browne, a regular guest on the "Montel" show, apologized for her misfire, exposed first by StopSylviaBrowne.com, a blog dedicated to tracking the psychic's every blunder. "I'm terribly sorry that this happened," she told the Daily News. "But I think my body of work stands by itself. I've broken case after case." Lets make one thing crystal clear. Sylvia Browne has never once, not once, "broke a case". Ever. She is a charlatan of the lowest order, one who feeds off the misery of others. There is, however no such thing as a phoney psychic, so I do apologize. For her to be a phony one, there would have to exist a genuine one, and this has never happened. It would be wonderful if women in particular stopped believing in such balderdash, and would save countless millions of dollars while allowing beleagured police departments to get about their real work without having to address the clamor to employ con artists. Click here for more on the criminal otherwise known as Sylvia Browne.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Bullets, Bullets, Where Are The Fast Handgun Bullets....
The following are representative of factory-max loads for each caliber.
+p+ 9mm 115 grains from a 4" barrel: 1395 fps
+p+ 9mm 124 grains from a 4" barrel: 1295 fps
.357 magnum 125 grains from a 4" barrel: 1600 fps
.357 magnum 158 grains from a 4" barrel: 1400 fps
.357 Sig 115 grains from a 4" barrel: 1550 fps
.357 Sig 125 grains from a 4" barrel: 1450 fps
.357 Sig 147 grains from a 4" barrel: 1250 fps
.40 135 grains from a 4" barrel: 1375 fps
.40 155 grains from a 4" barrel: 1275 fps
Conclusions: To all who've offered that hot-loaded 9 mm's are the equal to .357 magnums, put down the wacky-weed and welcome to 2007. The wonder 9's don't giddyup like a Sig let alone a magnum. And unless you've a burning urge to go super-light with the Sig, there isn't anything it will do that a .40 caliber won't do.
The advantage of the 357 Sig over the .40 is in the proliferation of different types of bullet configurations from different manufactures, but the ballistics are very nearly a dead heat, with the slight edge to the .40.
Some like their ammunitions light and fast, others slow and heavy, and still others fast and heavy. Like the 10 mm and .357 mags. From either the 10 or the 357, 170 grain bullets can be made to travel as fast as the 9's 115 grains, and 180's as zippy as a 9's 124. And let's not even get into 200 grainers from either of the bigger boys.
And, since I haven't picked on Box O' Dimwittles for a time, my Winchester 1894 chambered in .357 magnum is the ballistic twin of any of his AK-variants. Except of course for the fact that I do not have to rely upon fmj's or old fashioned soft-points. Hell, I'd rather use a Ranger .38 +p from a carbine then pinhole someone into submission like the AK's. The understanding of this would of course lay waste to his neverending mantra of "rifle bullets are rifle bullets and handgun bullets are handgun bullets", so I'm glad he doesn't tune in to anything remotely resembling a modern treatise on ammunition and weaponry.
Circa 1950 he'd have been the cats meow.
Circa 2007 his horrid advice might be deadly.
And yes, but sorry again. The new Corvettes ARE faster than a Stutz Bearcat.
I Guess "Darth" Was Already Taken...
Black is like so 90's. OD was popular for, what time is it now...
Then came Coyote.
Glock wannabes uped the ante with DARK EARTH. Word now has it that the new G-21 SF will be available in a color similar to the pictured knockoff.
Me? Well I made the barrel real shiny on one of my guns.
Draw, Partner....
"Mousegun calibers notwithstanding, isn't it simply wiser to shoot the gun you shoot the fastest for self-defense?"
A Doctoral thesis could easily be written on this subject, but here's the skinny in a nutshell. And I'm just the nut to offer it. And we'll stick with fast and leave accurate for another day.
A 12 year-old, all things being equal, cannot be expected to handle and fire the same caliber of weapon a 22 year-old is comfortable with. Back in the old days, bodybuilders and weight lifters came up with a system called "progressive resistance" training. Begin with a certain weight, then gradually add more poundage as time goes by. This is 100% guaranteed to make one stronger, and in many cases, larger as well.
The 12 year-old uses the ensuing 10 years to stretch out what progressive resistance can do in 12 months. If all you shoot is a .32, chances are good that suddenly stepping up to a stoutly loaded .357 magnum will be an eye-opener and some of us are quite happy squinting, thank you very much..
Using another sporting comparison, one doesn't improve one's skill level without playing against those who are bigger, stronger, and/or faster. Call it, on-the-job progressive resistance.
Keeping this in mind, it is quite possible to step-up from one caliber to another, but it takes time and a lot of dedicated energy. Within reason, but of course. You'll eventually crank off your .40 as fast as you did your 9, but never as fast as you can your .22. Diminishing returns and all that.
In summary, many shooters are incapable of braving the anguish necessary to progressively attain swiftness of shot with a larger caliber, so in truth they ARE much faster with a smaller weapon and will always be so. If it gets down to world experts and milliseconds between discharge then all bets are off.
Until the next guy comes along who so resembles Miculek it isn't funny. Jerry, by the way, unloads his double-action .357 far faster than 99.999% of all shooters using a .32. Yes, he's the exception. But you'll never know how quick and accurate you can be until you try. Conversely, shooting should be fun so if and when it becomes a drudge then go back to toting the peashooter.
202 Years Later...
And yet another American city decides that the average citizen has less rights than the police. And isn't the Ad the funniest thing you've seen lately.
CLINTON - "With two residents objecting, a resolution banning firearms throughout the Anderson County Courthouse was approved Tuesday in a 12-4 vote by county commissioners.
Constable Ed Williamson of Heiskell and Oak Ridge resident Steve Mead voiced concerns about the ban, saying residents with gun permits should be allowed to carry weapons into the courthouse.
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During Anderson County's 202-year history, there has never been a problem with guns in the courthouse, Williamson said.
"I can't find a compelling reason for anybody to have a gun in this courthouse,'' Commissioner Scott Gillenwaters said.
Before passing the resolution as presented, commissioners tinkered with it, tacking on a sunset provision.
The ban will remain in effect until Feb. 1, 2008, commissioners decided. It could be renewed permanently then, Commission Chairman Myron Iwanski said.
Off-duty law enforcement officers will be allowed to tote weapons in the courthouse, the panel decided in a separate vote.
Judges and other members of a courthouse security committee recently voted to ask commissioners to impose the ban.
Judges in 2001 posted notices prohibiting guns inside their courtrooms after commissioners at that time voted down a courthouse-wide firearms ban.
The ban approved Tuesday imposes a $500 fine on those found carrying a weapon in the courthouse."
Thanks To The War On Guns
Dumb As A Box Of Claw Hammers...
Was never more apropos...
"A guy sneaking around a south Harris County bar last night made a fatal mistake when he pretended to pull a gun on a pistol-totin' Texan: The guy ended up being shot to death in what police believe was a case of self-defense.
It happened about 9 p.m. at P&C Place in the 14600 block of Almeda, where Harris County officials report the dead man was seen sneaking around the bar last night and peeking through a back entrance at one point. It was enough to make one P&C regular decide to go out to his truck, where he kept his pistol, to keep an eye on the guy. The guy then approached the regular and pointed what appeared to be a gun at him, demanding money; the regular pulled his pistol and shot the guy. But it wasn't a gun at all: "It appears that it was a tool wrapped up in a towel," Harris County Sheriff's Sgt. Bryan Pair told KTRK.
The shooter reportedly hung around to answer questions; he was taken to the sheriff's office for an interview."
"...sweet geez, Louie, look out, he's got a Craftsman!"
Sure To Be A Hit With The LE Crowd...
The Glock trigger safety. From Lonewolf. 50 bucks. Not my cup of tea, but there ARE those who become frightened knowing their firearm can just GO OFF.
So when the folks who install this product FORGET to slide the crossbolt safety to the no-go-bang position, and STILL squib off a round in the general direction of the family cat, or a LEO demostrating to a class full of youngsters how ONLY HE is professional enough to wound himself even WITH a trigger safety...
It's back to the drawing board. Idiot proofing is hopeless because they keep inventing better idiots. Firearms are designed to fire. You can look it up.
We Get Letters
This just in from Cookie. A Darwin award candidate slugging down 151 rum afire. Without first blowing OUT the flame.
If these genes get passed along there is no God.
Bloggers To The Rescue
The (Rump) Group of 88 Strikes Again
Two hundred ninety-five days after issuing their statement, the Group of 88 has re-emerged, in a defiant statement posted yesterday.Operating under the moniker Concerned (of Being Sued) Duke Faculty, the 88 is now 87. Though losing more than two dozen of its members, Group leaders somehow rounded up an almost equal number of faculty members who hadn’t signed the original ad. That such a cohort would, after the fact, affiliate with a widely discredited and discreditable statement might be the most amazing thing we’ve witnessed from the Duke arts and sciences faculty over the past 10 months.
It was fitting that the Group of 88 made its re-appearance on the same day that one of its most prominent members, Karla Holloway, released scurrilous fifth-hand gossip to the local media.."Nifong's Ripples Reach General Assembly
Two blogs of note: "Durham-in-Wonderland" (the initial link above), and "Liestoppers, Blog Hooligans", have chronicled the Duke Hoax Norape Case from the first lie onward, and are a must read. A faculty that saw an opening to weep about injustice, a DA who needed a political boost, and last but NEVER least, a local police department that went where their masters said to went.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Glock 23 With A Push
Everything shiny is hard chromed. Front cocking serrations for my money are just more to get in the snag-bag. I'm not in favor of the hair on the palm grip job either, just doesn't do it for me, but to each their own. Two things I look for: Does the gun operate better or cause the operator to be better. The answer doesn't have to be a yes to either if it's just a "this-is-mine" workover. A little bling on an ugly duckling isn't a bad thing, particularly when one has the disposable income to go for form over function. What isn't known, is what match-grade barrel went into the beastie, if any. There are outfits that'll take your gun and send it back looking thusly for about $250 or thereabouts, sans any performance gigs such as that match tube. A Glock 23 is one of the worlds best concealed carry weapons, and while Mr. Mugger won't fall down any deader from the shiny-shine, he just might whisper, "nice piece" before expiring.
Tossing Crumbs
This toon was found over at Cam Edwards joint. The link to Cam's blog was found at Michelle Malkin's blog, from a posting by someone named Mary Katherine Ham. I've complained that the major conservative bloggers say next to nothing about the war on guns, so what's right is right and I should send kudos Malkin's way, even if she didn't have much to do with what a guest blogger had to say.
Linking us to what Instapundit or any of the other mega-sites are offering on gun control, is providing the Betty Crocker take on the matter when what's needed is the grass roots, straight from the gut version. Vanilla RINO's attract other vanilla RINO's, and when one of THE biggest conservative forums...Little Green Footballs...is anti-gun, the brave thing to do would be to give conservative blogdom a regular peek into whats happening in the trenches, and advice from The Bitch Girls, while somewhat heartening in that a Malkin fill-in would give someone, ANYONE, a nice hit-spree, just doesn't cut the mustard.
We don't need a perky, flavor of the month with a cute twist peek into 2nd Amendment goings on. There's scads of that happening everywhere you turn and it hasn't gotten the message across, not one scintilla. Or maybe they didn't notice the results of the last elections. The same-old, same-old isn't working.
A major platform of the Democrat Party is to stamp null and void on the 2nd Amendment. The fence-sitters who believed themselves to be hardcore Conservatives need a rude awakening or a new name.
How much more must we lose before they arrive at this conclusion.
Are the big blogs doing enough?
Hardly.
Top 10 Ponderables For 2007
#10 Life is sexually transmitted.
#9 Good health is merely the slowest rate at which one can
die
#8 Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see him
without an erection, make him a sandwich.
#7 Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach
a person to use the internet and they won't bother you for
weeks.
#6 Some people are like a slinky... not really good for
anything, but you still can't help but smile when you
shove them down the stairs.
#5 Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in
the hospital dying of nothing.
#4 All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays
no attention to criticism.
#3 Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred
dollars, and a substantial tax cut saves you thirty
cents???
#2 In the 60's, people took LSD to make the world weird.
Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it
normal.
AND THE NUMBER ONE THOUGHT FOR 2007:
We know exactly where one cow with mad-cow-disease is
located among the millions and millions of cows in
America, but we haven't a clue as to where thousands of
Illegal immigrants and Terrorists are located. Maybe we
should put the Department of Agriculture in charge of
immigration.
From: Mare
The Breck Girl Was For Deposing Saddam Until He Became Against It When Hillary Was For It Before She....
MATTHEWS: Let me ask but the war, because I know these are all students and a lot of guys the age of these students are fighting over there and cleaning up over there, and they’re doing the occupation.
Were we right to go to this war alone, basically without the Europeans behind us? Was that something we had to do?
EDWARDS: I think that we were right to go. I think we were right to go to the United Nations. I think we couldn’t let those who could veto in the Security Council hold us hostage.
And I think Saddam Hussein, being gone is good. Good for the American people, good for the security of that region of the world, and good for the Iraqi people.
MATTHEWS: If you think the decision, which was made by the president, when basically he saw the French weren’t with us and the Germans and the Russians weren’t with us, was he right to say, “We’re going anyway”?
EDWARDS: I stand behind my support of that, yes.
MATTHEWS: You believe in that?
EDWARDS: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about-Since you did support the resolution and you did support that ultimate solution to go into combat and to take over that government and occupy that country. Do you think that you, as a United States Senator, got the straight story from the Bush administration on this war? On the need for the war? Did you get the straight story?
EDWARDS: Well, the first thing I should say is I take responsibility for my vote. Period. And I did what I did based upon a belief, Chris, that Saddam Hussein’s potential for getting nuclear capability was what created the threat. That was always the focus of my concern. Still is the focus of my concern.
So did I get misled? No. I didn’t get misled.
MATTHEWS: Did you get an honest reading on the intelligence?
EDWRADS: But now we’re getting to the second part of your question.
I think we have to get to the bottom of this. I think there’s clear inconsistency between what’s been found in Iraq and what we were told.
And as you know, I serve on the Senate Intelligence Committee. So it wasn’t just the Bush administration. I sat in meeting after meeting after meeting where we were told about the presence of weapons of mass destruction. There is clearly a disconnect between what we were told and what, in fact, we found there.
MATTHEWS: If you knew last October when you had to cast an aye or nay vote for this war, that we would be unable to find weapons of mass destruction after all these months there, would you still have supported the war?
EDWARDS: It wouldn’t change my views. I said before, I think that the threat here was a unique threat. It was Saddam Hussein, the potential for Saddam getting nuclear weapons, given his history and the fact that he started the war before.
MATTHEWS: Do you feel now that you have evidence in your hands that he was on the verge of getting nuclear weapons?
EDWARDS: No, I wouldn’t go that far.
MATTHES: What would you say?
EDWARDS: What I would say is there’s a decade long pattern of an effort to get nuclear capability, from the former Soviet Union, trying to get access to scientists...
MATTHEWS: What about Africa?
EDWARDS: ... trying to get-No. I don’t think so. At least not from the evidence.
MATTHEWS: Were you misled by the president in the State of the Union address on the argument that Saddam Hussein was trying get uranium from Niger?
EDWARDS: I guess the answer to that is no.
I did not put a lot of stock in that.
MATTHEWS: But you didn’t believe-But you weren’t misled?
EDWARDS: No, I was not misled because I didn’t put a lot of stock in to it begin with.
As I said before, I think what happened here is, for over a decade, there is strong, powerful evidence, which I still believe is true, that Saddam Hussein had been trying to get nuclear capability. Either from North Korea, from the former Soviet Union, getting access to scientists, trying to get access to raw fissile material. I don’t-that I don’t have any question about."
The year, 2003. Interviewer, the loonatic Chris Matthews. Politician, the stoneless idol of millions. In his own mind.
Pictured: John Edwards with campaign supporter on the right. No. Left. Far Left.
Jimmy On Al-Jizzera TV...All Terrorism All The Time
I do think it's long past time for Jimmy to be censured. Hanging is too good for him and he'd only wind up a martyr to the terrorist cause. If no one came to listen, for him, it'd be worse than death itself.
Sick, sick man.
A Long Gun With Sidearm For Bear Country
Double Tap 350 grain @ 1975 from the 8 3/4" revolver. Closing in on 2500 from the 16" levergun. Who was it that said pistol caliber carbines are a weak-ass waste of time...
A great many, but that's not important now
I'm awaiting the semi-auto carbine
From Hi-Point
All Creatures Great And Small, With The Emphasis On Small...
Senator Barack Obama Takes First Step Toward Presidential Bid
"The Illinois Democrat sent a letter and posted a video on his Web site notifying supporters of his plans to join the 2008 White House race. He said he would announce updates to his plan in his home state on Feb. 10."Listen? Hear that? Sort of like a cross between a train whistle and a rusty gate being forced open, but louder...much louder
Its Hillary screaming.
