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Saturday, June 03, 2006

I had something I thought real interesting to post,

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but right now I can't remember what the hell it was. Three hours sleep in the last, uh, 32 does that to me. Right now I've got abou...
Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Reason Number , I forget, Why The UN Sucks

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Bigtime. In this case it's not the corruption, the child molesters, the pimps and so forth. Oh, no, the same assholes that sat on the...
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Book Review

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1491 , by Charles C. Mann The subtitle is ' New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus' , which covers it. Lots of information...

This Just In: Food Police Screw It Up

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As if that's a surprise Over at Instapundit found this link to a story- at the New York Times of all places- stating "Well-Intenti...
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Sunday, May 28, 2006

Peace weenies

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were out in force the other day. Not much force, but some. Bunch of empty boots lined up along the curb and the signs you'd expect: ...

Lawrence of Arabia

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The movie with Peter O'Toole as Lawrence. Borrowed it from the library a while back, and I was thinking about it earlier, one scene in ...
Saturday, May 27, 2006

Flea market report

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Ok, Xavier has the pawn shop circuit, so on occasion I'll cover flea markets. There's a big one over in Midwest city called Mary...
Friday, May 26, 2006

I started to write on this this morning,

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but by the time I finished beating out letters to congresscritters, I had to go to work. I was also too damn mad to do it then. This being ...

I just LOVE doing things like this

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Decided to get some dies and some .284 Winchester brass to resize for 7.5 Swiss. Check Midway and find several things I need. Find the die...
Thursday, May 25, 2006

Buttpack carry

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Or fannypack to use the more polite term. Especially in hot weather, it can be one of the best ways to carry a sidearm, but you've got ...
Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Experiment: results to follow

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One more reason I like gun shows All the bits & pieces you can find. At the one last weekend there was a man with a table covered with ...
Tuesday, May 23, 2006

This just in: Seattle plays Humpty-Dumpty

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as in 'words mean what we say they do'. Ok, ok, people have noted this before, but this crap demands to be written about. 'Raci...
Monday, May 22, 2006

Idiot/craven/lying/etc. politicians, part, uh,

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I've lost track. In this particular case, Bloomberg, GFW mayor of New York 'effin City. Having just had his little "Let us ...

My world

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"Where are the oven mitts?" "Oh yeah, under those two bayonets"
Sunday, May 21, 2006

"Lines I'd like to hear"

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Over at LawDog , including: "Oh, my God, Mr. President, the Alien Overlords crashed a family reunion somewhere in Southwest Louisiana. ...

Ref the current idiocy in NO

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Specifically the reelection of that incompetent guilty-of-manslaughter-through-negligence Nagin, I now officially say Screw New Orleans. No...

Drop part,

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listen hard, grab flashlight, find part... damn , I need to dust under there.

Doesn't matter how old your kids are,

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they can go through .22's like a beaver through soft wood. I took 400 rounds along today, and my daughter went through most of it. She...
Friday, May 19, 2006

Gun show!

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This weekend. Going Saturday. Two neighbors want me to try to sell something for them. One's a Dutch Mannlicher carbine, the other...
Thursday, May 18, 2006

To return for now to firearms,

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a few days ago had a chance to go to the range for a little while, and tried the Trailside/red-dot combo in daylight. This sight has 11 brig...
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