My yard is being taken over

By gourd vines that're growing like something out of a Syfy-channel movie

Right now there's a bigger,

a middle,

 and some tiny gourds

And what're they growing on?

That thing stayed about a foot tall for weeks, then started slowly up the pole, and then... I half wondered if I was going to find the tendrils catching birds.

Not just growing along the wire, either, it's taken to the trees

This is looking along the wire toward the post; if you embiggen you can see the two lines that went up.

I think I'm gonna have some gourds to give to friends by fall.

Two good pieced at Gun Nuts Media

on night sights: Do you need and More discussion of.


More and more, I think we should just start randomly dumping federal agencies.


Overall a good piece: 6 Things Movies Get Wrong About Swords

Well, I would hope not.

A recording of the tape was played during a news conference Tuesday where the Lavaca County district attorney and sheriff announced that the father would not face charges.

In declining to indict the 23-year-old father in the June 9 killing of Jesus Mora Flores, a Lavaca County grand jury reached the same conclusion as investigators and many of the father's neighbors: He was authorized to use deadly force to protect his daughter.
Texas has some problems with cops and prosecutors, just like everywhere else, but can you imagine the reaction if they'd filed against him?
"That sign says I have the right to refuse service to anyone; so get your ass out of here and don't come back" would have been heard more than once, I think.

I wonder if HuffPo approves of this racist idiot,

or just likes the noise he generates?

I've read On Combat and On Killing,

and they're good books.  I'd wondered about this part of them, though; turns out there's a LOT of disagreement on the 'most people cannot or will not fight' idea.

Good piece, well worth reading.


"Ah, the fools! Why are they cheering?" 
Because Obama; nothing else counts to the fools.


"A New Jersey Appeals Court has ruled that both sides of a texting conversation which resulted in a car accident could be held liable. The ruling came as part of a case in which the driver of a truck received a text message shortly before striking a motorcycle carrying two passengers. The court ruled that while in this case, the person sending the text wasn't liable, they could be if the circumstances were a little different. '...a person sending text messages has a duty not to text someone who is driving if the texter knows, or has special reason to know, the recipient will view the text while driving.'"
Oh, I can just see them trying to prove that.


Dirtbag, hypocrite, worthless lying politician:
Earnest today repeated the administration’s claim that major use of chemicals weapons overseas is an threat to the United States.
“The president believes strongly — that it is imp for the international community to protect international norms against the use of weapons of mass destruction, particularly these weapons used in Syria against innocent civilians,” he said. “Protection of that international norm is a priority of the international community … is within the core national security interests of the United States of America.”
As opposed to what the Liar in Chief said about Iraq.

It wouldn't surprise me to find that closing down the CMP

was exactly what Obama had in mind.

Idiot at Slate lectures us that you're a Bad Person

if you don't put your kids in public schools.  No matter how much they suck.

Mr. Correia has a response.  It includes
Wait… Let me get this right… I need to needlessly screw up my children and grandchildren’s chances in the hope that maybe, just maybe, our shitty public schools might be decent in forty or fifty years. And this is the high note she picked to open her essay with. Holy shit.

Yes, comrades, sacrifice your offspring for the common good… Sure, that sounds bug nuts to most parents who don’t routinely put cigarette butts out on their children’s skin, but don’t worry, folks. Allison is just getting warmed up.

Sue the repo company. Get the name of the bank-

and if they're reluctant to give it mention 'contempt of court' and 'prison'- and then sue the bank, too.

Not just the wrong address but the WRONG DAMNED TOWN?

Well, my first thought is

"Before, during, or after I wet my pants?"

Because gangbangers are just loaded down with Garands

and M1 Carbines; and trusts somehow cancel out all laws on NFA firearms.
More correctly, "You people won't do what I want, so I'm issuing an order!" from The Lightbringer.

More on this crap from John Lott.


Speaking of control-freak gun bigots in the PROM,
One of the interesting aspects of their requirement to develop a new curriculum is that NRA requires that you not call something an NRA class if you’re not following the NRA curriculum. (That was part of the instructor class when I took it years ago.) That effectively means that people just coming into the shooting sports will no longer associate the NRA brand with teaching firearms safety courses.

If you really want to look at an ultra-creepy perspective, this training database means that Maryland will not only have information on gun owners in the state, but they will also be keeping a list of everyone who even learns how to fire a gun.
And just why might they want that, hmmmm?

I just might have to see this

And I'm about halfway through Solomon Kane(don't ask), I'll write about it when done.

Once again, registration moves toward confiscation;

it won't stop the bad guys, but the Greens will feel bloody wonderful about themselves.


Tam noted this one day, now from GCT another example: just because it's factory ammo

doesn't mean all is well.


Remember, these are the people who insist they need MORE power over us so as to keep us 'safe'.
And I keep hearing that idiot general bitching that 'it would be terrible if this harmed our diversity'...


"What?  You want your kid to have the best education you can get him?  Then you're a bad person!"
Because you're supposed to support the local school with your kid even if the school sucks.


I wish I could put things this well:
I hate to be the one to break this to A1C Snuffy or MSgt Powerpoint Presenter, but your job description is to kill people and break their stuff because the interests of your nation differ from the interests of theirs. Not to put too fine a point on it, but you guys are the sharp end of the nationalism spear.

Oh yeah, what could possibly go wrong?

It “can make some people uncomfortable,” but City Council Speaker Christine Quinn says she’s open to allowing middle-school girls as young as 11 to receive the morning-after contraceptive pill.

“This is a really important option we need to make accessible,” Quinn said yesterday after receiving a mayoral endorsement from the Planned Parenthood of New York City Political Committee.
And she wants to take over from Bloomberg.

At this point I don't know whether to say 'NY is screwed' or 'Screw NY'.  In either case, the kids are paying a lot of the price.

And every damn penny should come from the pockets of the prosecutors

George Zimmerman, the Neighborhood Watch volunteer who killed Trayvon Martin, plans to ask the state of Florida to cover $200,000 to $300,000 of his legal expenses, his attorney told the Orlando Sentinel Monday evening.

Because Zimmerman was acquitted, state law requires Florida to pay all his legal costs, minus the biggest one: the fee that goes to his lawyers.

That includes the cost of expert witnesses, travel, depositions, photocopies, even that animated 3-D video that defense attorneys showed jurors during closing argument that depicts Trayvon punching Zimmerman.

Yeah, this is what you'd expect from President Mom-Pants

One U.S. official who has been briefed on the options on Syria said he believed the White House would seek a level of intensity "just muscular enough not to get mocked" but not so devastating that it would prompt a response from Syrian allies Iran and Russia.

"They are looking at what is just enough to mean something, just enough to be more than symbolic," he said.
Translation: "I don't want to do anything, but if I don't I'll be called weak; so what can we blow up that'll make me look tough?"

The bad guys are laughing their asses off.

Judge G. Todd Baugh should have that black robe removed

with a bullwhip.

And Stacey Dean Rambold belongs in a prison. 

First-World Problems

Especially for pretentious fools who require validation from their spellchecker and coffee provider.


If I were a Jew living in Europe, I'd be looking for somewhere else to go. 
Some places over there just happen to be a bit more open about their opinion of Jews.
“The comparison does not make sense,” added Bjørn Ihler, who survived the massacre by hiding on the southern tip of the island. “Breivik was a solo terrorist whose actions were based purely on an unreal situation. The situation in the Middle East is very different. There is a real fight for Palestinian freedom going on.”

Middle East expert Per Jönsson with the Swedish Institute for International Affairs (Utrikespolitiska institutets – UI) also slammed Bachman’s Breivik comparison.

“The comparison with Breivik is insane in several ways. Breivik is very special. These people that Israel is now releasing are freedom fighters, murderers, and in some cases terrorists, but they are nevertheless rather normal people,” he told the Aftonbladet newspaper.
You're pretty damn special yourself, Jönsson.


Some thoughts on precision strikes.  Especially when the target doesn't react like you want him to.


And I'm off to mow before it gets hot.

Time and opportunity collided yesterday, so range day it was

And the modified-stock MN was tried out.  A lot.

Worth every minute of time and bit of the mess.

Pachmayr recoil pads are wonderful.  That rifle still recoils solidly with ball, but the pad spreads it out wonderfully.  I've got a slip-on pad for my 1903 Springfield, and it's great, but if Springfield stocks didn't cost so much I'd pick one up and put a pad on it, too.

Spokane police Chief Frank Straub: you are a sorry bastard excuse for a peace officer. Updated

You suck like a Hoover with a turbo.  Fuck you and the diseased pony you rode in on, you miserable shit.
“Our information is that the individual fought back and that may have made this, you know, a worse situation,” Spokane police Chief Frank Straub said.
Oh, yeah, Deity forbid a 88-year-old man dare to defend himself from a couple of thug attackers...

Update:
Pointed out by Jeffersonian in comments, it appears Straub was incompletely quoted:
“Our information is that the individual fought back and that may have made this, you know, a worse situation,” Straub said during a Monday morning press conference. “I’m not being critical of Mr. Belton. We certainly encourage individuals to fight back, and he should have. But it shouldn’t have happened to begin with.”
Expanded on today:
“When I was asked yesterday about the significant injuries that Mr. Belton sustained, I responded by saying that those injuries were incurred when Mr. Belton fought back against his attackers. Mr. Belton's actions were both appropriate and justified. In fact, I encouraged individuals to fight back against attackers and acknowledged that Mr. Belton was correct in doing so.

Tab clearing

Debtors prison; but it's only for men, so it's fine.


Chivalry was a system, in which obligations fell on women as well as men. says Insty.  So if you want men to be gentlemen...
I remember being told, back in the Cambrian Age, "Treat a woman as a lady unless the proves she's not."  If she acts like anything but, she shouldn't expect to be treated as a lady.


More previews of Obamacare.
Interesting that he seems to despise Britain generally, but he loves him some socialized medicine.  Least as long as he's the big pig on top.


More assholery from the enviroweenies.  Better for kids to go blind and die than be saved by a genetically-modified crop.


"Screw surveys; we have pictures, and we want your money."


Yeah, if this had been a couple of plain citizens, they'd already be in jail.


More on former prosecutor(resigned in disgrace) Jim Letten.
The decision to prosecute O’Keefe and to accept Letten’s recusal was made at “the very highest levels of the Justice Department.” “[O’Keefe] was appropriately convicted.”
Letten declined to answer if his office worked with Attorney General Eric Holder to prosecute O’Keefe.
There’s reason to think that he may have. Last month, J. Christian Adams, a voting rights expert, revealed documents that showed coordination by Holder’s Justice Department with Attorney General Richard Head of New Hampshire after O’Keefe’s successful voter fraud investigations. [Editor's note: Richard Head has worked directly with Brett Kimberlin associate and professional harasser Neal Rauhauser.]


Swim with the crocs, and you're dinner.
Dumbass.