"Uh, Jack..."

Breakables/RCOB warning in effect

Go here. Go to the linked post. Be ready to add to the list of people who are in line for tar and feathers.

This kind of crap IS going to get somebody killed, I have no question.

Ok, so when did the VFW turn into a supporter of progressive politicians

who piss on the troops?
Last night, we received an interesting email from Bev Perlson, who heads the Band of Mothers

group. She's got an awesome email list that is good for keeping up on what's going on around the country.

What was so disturbing was the email listed someone we all know- LTC(r) Allen West, and how the VFW, of all people, THE VEE-EFF-FRICKING-W, was ENDORSING HIS OPPONENT.

You read that right.

His opponent? Democrat Ron Klein. WHO HAS NEVER SERVED IN UNIFORM.

You read THAT right, too.
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As you may recall, when I returned from Iraq one of the first things I did was join VFW and Legion as 'life members'. Now, it seems, the time has come to rip, burn, and toss my Lifetime Membership for the VFW. I feel like they have completely left us at the station here. Over at the Farm Team, Jonn Lilyea lays out just who the VFW has announced they are supporting:

Barbara Boxer, Alcee Hastings, Barbara Lee, Steny Hoyer, Barbara Mikulsky, Chris VanHollen, John Dingell, Chuckie Schumer, Pat Leahy and Patty Murray

In addition, they support Perlmutter over Bailey (former USAF) Frazier (former Navy) for Colorado; to their credit, they do support Mike Coffman (Marine) in his race in CO. But the rest of the list is disgusting. To me, it reads they are 'supporting' or 'endorsing' only those they see as WINNING. It appears they don't give a RATS ASS who supports vets or who WAS a vet.

I think I'll ass this along to the son, and advise him NOT to join VFW.

Rust bluing, start to finish *addition

with a new(old) formula.

Not long ago I found, while going through some papers, an old formula for browning steel. In the case of browning you’re rusting the piece appropriately and then brushing the rust off and oiling it to produce the finish, whereas with rust-bluing you rust the piece appropriately and then boil it(repeat as needed); but in both cases you need something to promote rust, so I decided to try this formula instead of the one I used to blue the Martini.

Test piece:
this is an old knife blank somebody gave me more years ago than I care to think about. It’s a plain 1095 carbon steel so it’s a good test piece. I started by taking it down to a nice bright 120-grit finish on the belt sander.

No, I did not take it all the way to 320, for the purpose of the test 120 will work just fine. And I’m lazy.

My old directions stated “Degrease, apply the solution with a cotton pad or cotton ball(I seem to remember a guy saying he grabbed whichever with a clothes pin, and just dumped the cotton after use), let sit a few hours. Apply a second coat, then leave until rusty.” So I got a cotton makeup pad(shut up, they have LOTS of uses) and wiped the stuff on, then about two hours later hit it again. Here’s how it looked the next day, not quite 24 hours later
Nice even coat of light rust, so I boiled it a few minutes, then wiped it down with steel wool to card off the loose stuff. Here’s how it looked after
With a bit of oil it’d have looked pretty good, but I’m giving it a second coat(as it were). Here’s how it looked 24 hours after the second treatment,
Very even coat of light rust. Here it is after boiling

This time I went ahead and oiled it to see just how it would look
Not bad at all.

I gave it a third pass: degrease, wipe with solution, after a couple of hours wipe again(no picture this time; how much rust you need to see?), leave overnight. Again got a nice, even coat of light rust. Boiled it a few minutes, wiped off under running water with steel wool, dried and oiled, and here's the result:
Gave a very nice, even color. Had I taken it to a 240 or 320 finish, would've been downright bright. Like regular hot-bluing, surface prep is a big factor in how nicely it comes out, although anything above 320 is a waste with this process(you can take it down to a mirror finish with hot-bluing).

That's the process; nothing mysterious, just takes some preparation and some time.

I think I may clean up that Martini receiver and see if I get better results with this mix.

Added: I have been reminded I forgot to say what the mix is.
The mix in question below my
DISCLAIMER!
This involves the use of acids. Get careless with them and you can get burns, you can damage your eyes, if you inhale acid fumes it can do nasty things to your lungs and other passages. If you decide to mix the stuff up, it's your own responsibility and use all precautions.
The solution is simple:
1 part nitric acid
1 part hydrochloric(muriatic) acid
12 parts water
Mix the above, put them in a container the solution won't eat/rust out/make brittle over time so it cracks and leaks.

Light posting last few days, mix of busy and just not feeling like typing a lot

Still not that fond of it, but there's a lot of stuff I want to point to. Which probably translates to "I can stop anytime I want!(no you can't, dumbass) In any case,
The NRA is supposed to be focused on "Who is a friend of the 2nd", that doesn't bother me; what bothers me is idiocy like this:
If anyone thinks supporting this proven gun-grabber is the best course for the Republic (and the best inducement for the Republicans to stop with the betrayals, although why they would feel compelled to if they're rewarded anyway is a valid argument), I won't waste my time trying to dissuade you. Although I will point out he apparently doesn't feel your support is worth crowing about... What I will say is, to endorse GUN CONFISCATOR Dan Lungren and not endorse faithful gun rights supporter Sharron Angle points to a disconnect in the NRA grading system that is not only illogical, one might even consider it fraudulent.
Fraudulent or flat stupid; either one covers it.


So with this group, instead of "We'll kill you if you don't support our AGW ideas", it's "If you don't support us, YOU'RE murdering children":



Ah, Napolitano, this really is pretty simple: if she's here illegally, you throw her ass out. C'mon, how difficult is that?


Interesting things happening and questions about what Castro & Co. are up to.


Well, if you had the money wouldn't you build a submarine?


You've got some people actually worried about doing their job right, but the wording of some of this tells me TurboTax Geithner is mostly worried that if people find out just what Obama & Co.'s bullcrap is going to cost them before the election...


I've been running a test on some rust-bluing stuff, I hope to post it later today. For now, 'bye

He may or may not be a lousy artist, but at least he has to balls

to go after Mohammed. At least a little bit.

As to the rest? 'Edgy' is insulting Jesus and so forth? Please.

I'm going to change the wording of this a bit

No, this video was made by green supremacists themselves, and with a high degree of technical proficiency. As 10:10 itself observed in a statement (since removed from its website), the video required the efforts of "50+ film professionals and 40+ actors and extras." Blogger David Burge notes that "somehow, throughout this entire process, not one of the hundreds of people involved seemed to have questioned the wisdom of an advertising message advocating the violent, sudden death of people who disagree with it."

One may hope that Jim Edwards is right when he denies that "this is actually what environmentalists want." But it's bad enough that this is what they fantasize about--and that they manifestly felt no inhibition about airing such a depraved fantasy in public.
I'm going to put it more bluntly and correctly: ...have questioned the wisdom of an advertising message advocating the murder of people who disagree with it.
Because that's exactly what this was: "Anyone who doesn't go along with the plan will be murdered." ...not one of the hundreds of people involved seemed to have questioned the wisdom of an advertising message advocating the violent, sudden death of people who disagree with it." I'm guessing because they think it's a good idea, and didn't realize that it would be such a shocking admission that even a lot of AGW supporters would be disgusted by it.

We have indeed met the enemy, and they are watermelons.

I got curious and looked; yeah, the National Education Association

does recommend Alinsky to teachers, and has a long "Here is a wonderful man!" review of it. Great, isn't it?

Surprisingly, the OEA doesn't have Alinsky recommended on their own site; however, when you search for the Oklahoma Education Association the first place you get to IS the NEA site, which then links to the OEA site, and since the Alinsky recommendation is on the NEA site...

While we're on the subject of idiots in law enforcement,

Mustapha's participation in the Citizen's Academy so soon after his identification as an unindicted co-conspirator has been a source of supreme embarrassment to the FBI. At first, outraged citizens who called the Bureau's Washington headquarters to complain were told that reports of Mustapha's inclusion in a sensitive-access FBI program were false -- and even that a picture showing Mustapha with other participants (see Pat Poole's Big Peace report) must have been photo-shopped. Alas, that story had a couple of holes: The class picture was an official Bureau photo and the class had been covered by a local ABC correspondent who remembered the sheikh quite well.
So the Effin'BI flat lied to the public. Repeatedly.
Thus came explanation number two: Yes, Mustapha was there, and yeah, maybe that means we took a Hamas supporter through a few top-secret locations, but don't look at us -- blame Chicago. Headquarters thus started referring irate callers to the Chicago field office, where {FBI Chicago flack] Mr. [Ross] Rice now labors through explanation number three: Sheikh Mustapha is our guy.
A: Since when does the EFFIN'BI HEADQUARTERS get told what to do by ANY field office?
B: They actually expect us to BELIEVE this crap?
Come again? Rice dutifully explains that if the Feebs had really thought the unindicted Hamas coconspirator "was a security risk, we wouldn't have included him." But he was included because "he is a very influential leader of the Palestinian community here and imam of the largest mosque and was a welcome addition."
A 'welcome addition' to WHAT, you idiot? You just gave a guy with direct ties to terrorists a tour of the National Counterterrorism Center AND the Effin'BI training center!

I repeat: who's giving these morons badges and FBI cards? And why do they still have them?

Is there something in a lot of police department's training that says

you get extra points if you shoot a dog? How fucking idiotic IS this?

And then they show up and 'apologize'? Asshole, if it was an actual justifiable shooting then you have nothing to apologize for; that you show up with this tells us you KNOW your people screwed up.
As officers circled the house, they saw the back door open and thought an intruder was inside, Thomason said. At that point, Gloria allegedly growled and barked at the officers, and one of the officers fired three rounds, all of which hit the dog - at least one in the head.
Damn, a dog growls and barks at strangers in the yard? Gee, why didn't you ticket the family for having an unlicensed attack dog or something?

Who keeps giving these clowns badges? And telling them they did right after something like this?

Oh yeah, sooner or later somebody's going to get hurt;

if we're unlucky they'll start killing their victims, if we're lucky the victims will start killing THEM.
What is ‘polar bear hunting’?

It’s a racist assault by blacks(mostly young men) on whites(mostly men of any age). Most often it involves more than one attacker on a lone victim, and usually from behind with no warning.

In the Champaign, Ill. area “the number of reports of beatings to white men in Champaign appear to be coming in quicker than police can even process them.”

The most recent attack was this past Friday night on a lone man walking home after a high school football game.
Have you heard anything on the nightly news about this racist garbage? Me neither. Gee, I wonder why?

Here's the statement from a victim that sets me off:
And he's nervous that an attacker or an innocent bystander is going to be killed by a victim who might be armed.
Well, God-DAMMIT, you think MAYBE? A little different angle, Mr. Sola, and you'd be minus an eye. People have already damn near died from this crap, and you're worried about an ATTACKER getting hurt? You moron.
Her son was admitted to Carle's intensive care unit for bleeding in the brain, multiple broken bones in his face, a concussion and multiple cuts inside his mouth from being kicked. His friend thought when Molloy's son hit his head on the curb, the attackers may have thought he was dead and ran off.
Put bluntly, you wind up with some dead attackers and it might do something to help stop this crap.

And no, I don't care if they're teenagers; they set out to beat people, possibly cripple or kill them for fun and they deserve anything that happens to them.

So they're using Predators and Hellfires to take out terrorists in Pakistan

and still worried as hell about Mumbai-style attacks in major European cities. And I just heard on a news report that the White House says "Nothing to worry about here in the US."

After that statement of "Don't worry", anybody else feel the need to load a couple of extra magazines?

The first question is WHY the hell does the university have a

coordinator for social justice education in the Office of Student Involvement in the first place?

Second question, how much money is it costing to keep this PC idiocy going?

Third question, you're going to force him to bake cookies for a customer he doesn't want?

And the city is apparently so flush with money, has every problem so under control, that they can waste time and money on this crap? Time for some tax cuts, then.

I know the 'progressives' won't, but I wonder if the Democrats will ever get tired

of their current tactic of "If you don't agree with us, you're a bigot/racist!" ?
The very idea of it made them angry. "I'm particularly offended by these people who want to take the nation back," said Maida Odom, who came to the rally from Philadelphia on board a bus chartered by the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees/ AFSCME Local 1199. "I'm saddened that people haven't risen above their bigotry. If you read the Republican Contract with America, you can see the bigotry in between every line."
Yeah, a desire for smaller government and lower taxes, how much more bigoted can you get?

Do they remove a reasoning part of their brain before they say crap like this?

If you're having trouble finding the enviroweene snuff film

might try here, it's still working.

As for the "Hey, it was just a joke! Just funny!" stuff,
What to do with those people, who are together threatening everybody's existence on this planet? Clearly we don't really think they should be blown up, that's just a joke for the mini-movie, but maybe a little amputating would be a good place to start?"
Ha ha. Funny. Yeah.

Want to try your amputation skills out? First, meet Ms. Benelli. Ho ho ho. That'll be funny.

Added: from Ms. Andrea:
By the way — no, it’s not satire in the great British tradition of Monty Python or even in Curtis’ own Blackadder; those shows poked fun at authority, conformity, and stupidity. This video celebrates authority: the ones who get the red button are 1) a teacher, 2) a member of upper management if not the CEO of a company, 3) a group of footballers against one lone man, and 4) a soundman at the control booth of a studio where Gillian Andersen’s character is behind glass, vulnerable to a seat rigged with explosives. Where is the authority and the conformity being mocked? Some might say that the piece mocks the stupidity of going against such an “obvious” problem as climate change, but how is killing the supposedly “stupid” people supposed to bring them around to the “correct” viewpoint? The answer is that it isn’t; the 10:10 group isn’t interested in changing anyone’s mind, only eliminating those who aren’t on board, and if you aren’t already on board that means you have already been placed in the ranks of the unredeemable. In a way this goes beyond conventional totalitarian movements, who at least seek to bring dissenters into the fold instead of just killing them at the first sign of dissent. (bold mine)

As a finale for the evening, a look at what the Democrats and socialists and

communists brought to DC as their 'One Nation' rally.



AND they left the place a mess.

Well, we either need some Coasties on the lake

with LMGs on the boats, or some people need to start playing privateer.
A young wife is desperately searching for her husband after he was shot in the back of the head by Mexican pirates in an ambush while they were jet-skiing on a border lake.

Search teams are combing the U.S. side of Falcon Lake in Texas for David Michael Hartley, 30, after he was apparently gunned down while his wife Tiffany fled to safety in a hail of bullets.

The couple had been jet-skiing on the lake when they were attacked.

Texas officials have been warning against activity on the lake after at least five reported run-ins with pirates this year. Previous hold-ups have never been deadly.
And I'm sure that, any time now, the Mexican government will tell us how it's our fault.

Add this to all the previous murders by illegal aliens in this country, there's quite a body count. But actually throwing out illegals and securing OUR border is disgusting and racist(though it's not when Mexico does it on THEIR southern border, is it?)

You know what's going to happen; somebody out fishing or boating is going to be attacked, shoot back, and Mexico will have fits about the dirty Americans harming poor peasants who just happened to be out fishing with AKs. And considering the people in charge in DC right now...

So J Street lied about where money was coming from,

including money from Soros and money that's causing J Street supporters on Capitol Hill worried that the organization is using foreign money to provide help to American political candidates.

Wonderful people at J Street, huh?

Remember the enviroweenie snuff film?

'Go with us or die'? Guess what?
But what I could never have imagined was how quickly public disgust – even among greenies – would reach such a pitch that the campaigners would be compelled to withdraw it from the internet.

That, at any rate, is what they keep trying to do – cancelling it whenever it appears on You Tube, pulling it from their campaign website and so on.

Unfortunately their efforts are being frustrated by people on the sceptical side of the climate debate, who keep peskily insisting on reposting the video where everyone can view it. And rightly so. With No Pressure, the environmental movement has revealed the snarling, wicked, homicidal misanthropy beneath its cloak of gentle, bunny-hugging righteousness.
That's right, those fearless Guardians of Gaia realized that they were really pissing people off AND showing what they'd really like to do and have been trying to yank the video. Without success. And people found some of the money behind it:
On the other hand, if you’re outraged by the video, you might be interested to know that they also have a small number of genuine commercial sponsors: O2, Sony and Kyocera all have helped fund the 10:10 Campaign.

I suggest that the first thing to do is to make your outrage known to O2, Sony and Kyocera, suggesting that their commercial interests might not be furthered by funding murderous nazi will-fulfillment propaganda.
That sounds like a good idea.

And you ought to hit the link and read the 'apology' the organizers put out.

Speaking of sensitive to ammo,

which a lot of .22 autoloaders are, at the range this morning guy was trying out an old Sterling .22 pistol
and having lots of jams, failures to feed and fails to eject. I asked what he was feeding it; Remington bulk-pack. I had a baggie with some Federal bulk-pack hollowpoints and suggested he try them. BIG difference, it ate three full loads of them with no problems.

Moral of the story: any .22 autoloader that has feeding/ejection problems, try some different ammo, as some will eat anything and some can be remarkably picky.

I'll throw in, when friend gunsmith gets in a .22 of any type that's having those problems, first thing he does is field-strip and clean the hell out of it, which solves between 50-75% of the problems; .22 ammo tends to be a bit dirty, crud builds up under the extractor hooks, in the chamber, etc., and sooner or later causes trouble.


Pic stoborrowed from over here

Let's start with some "They were SMOKING!!!" idiocy

A lot of players could be seen on TV smoking the cigars, and Reds owner Bob Castellini was passing them out. But video doesn't affect the investigation - the health inspector has to actually see someone smoking, said Rocky Merz, health department spokesman.

Five people called a statewide smoking ban complaint hotline, Merz said. Those complaints were sent to the city health department today for investigation. Castellini will get letter soon notifying him of the alleged violation.
Hey, you five little nannies: screw you. And the horses you fell off of onto your heads.


Moving to idiot lawsuits, and the lawyers filing them who should be disbarred for life:
After a fight with her boyfriend, a teenage girl sent him several text messages, including ones that said “Good bye … My last words …” and “If I won. I would have you. And I wouldn’t crash my car.” She then proceeded to drive her car into oncoming traffic at 85 mph, killing a 35-year-old pregnant woman and the woman’s 13-year-old son.

The teenage girl, on the other hand, survived – and is now suing the estate of the woman she killed and the construction company which built the overpass where the collision occurred. Yes, you read that correctly: a girl driving 85 mph into oncoming traffic with the intent of causing a fatal accident is suing the family of her victims. According to her lawsuit, she’s seeking unspecified damages since she’s dealing with permanent injuries, mental pain and suffering, a loss of income, and past, present and future medical expenses.
If the judge doesn't throw this out, he should be disbarred too. The moron who caused all this? Her name should be made public and she should face the ridicule she deserves.


This is just... 'stupid' is what comes to mind.
SPOKANE, Wash. -- Family of Medal of Honor recipient Vernon Baker was denied access to the White House's West Wing on Saturday, a day after the World War II hero was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Two things make this so effing stupid:
Baker's widow, Heidy, and grandson, Vernon Pawlik, 10, were denied entry because the boy was wearing shorts and a T-shirt. His shirt had a picture of his grandfather on it.
Violation of dress code? Well,
A White House Web site doesn't list a dress code, but the family had been invited to tour the West Wing, which houses the president's office and where casual dress is prohibited.
They've been invited back; I wonder if they'll make sure they have formal underwear on the kid?
Yeah, you can argue the 'prohibited' part; problem is, if they don't list it and the people didn't know...
Sipsey Street has the background on Lt. Baker, who was one of those people who probably needed a prescription jockstrap.


From Snarky Bytes: special considerations- out of our pockets- for politician's families:
The must-pass spending bill pending in the Senate includes a little-noticed provision that would pay the family of the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd for the salary he would have commanded in the next fiscal year.

The Senate handbook says that upon the death of a senator who had been serving in office, “in the next appropriations bill, an item will be inserted for a gratuity to be paid to the widow(er) or other next- of-kin, in the amount of one-year’s compensation.”
I'm curious; for how long have we been taxed for this crap?


A different take from the usual on the current student suicide incident:
"How could one roommate do this to another?" asked Rutgers spokesman Steve Manas.

They can do that by being an immature prick with computer skills.
Go take a look, well worth reading.


That's it for now, folks

Now there's an enviroweenie dream come true: if someone won't play long,

kill them.

Nice to know what the 'reality-based' community thinks is a funny idea.